“Discreet”, prudent, tactful, is related to “discrete”, separate. The “dis” does not seem to be a prefix.
- 01.004 They discreetly disappeared,
“discreet, adj., n., and adv.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
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Dip
- 03.027 “Don’t dip your beard
- 05.134 and dipped down again,
- 10.045 The white oars dipped
- 11.032 The little moon was dipping to the horizon.
Dining-room
This hyphenated word is made from two common words. Tolkien never uses “dining room” as two separate words. We may be certain that in Bilbo’s native language there was a specific – and probably important! – word for dining-room, not just some subcategory of “room”. In the OED, this hyphenated form is the preferred spelling.
- 01.002 dining-rooms,
- 02.001 went into the dining-room.
- 02.002 in the kitchen before turning out the dining-room.
- 02.002 in the dining-room by the open window,
- 04.012 in Bilbo’s dining-room that seemed so long ago,
Just updating this entry to note that it’s a food word just as much as cellar or pantry is!
“dining-room, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Ding-dong-a-ling-dang
What a cheerful door bell! This imitative, hyphenated word is completely a JRRT invention.
- 01.043 ding-dong-a-ling-dang,
Devour
“De-” as in “down” and the root is related to “voracious”. Thus, to “gulp down”.
- 01.109 certainly not after devouring so many of the dwarves
- 05.055 This thing all things devours:
- 06.063 and devouring people waked suddenly from their sleep.
“devour, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Devastate
The “vast” is related to “waste”, and the whole word comes out as “to knock down and lay waste”.
- 12.071 a devastating sound which shook Bilbo to the floor,
“devastate, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Detest
- 02.072 Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves
Detain
- 12.078 Well, I really must not detain Your Magnificence any longer,’
Depradation
The act of treating something as prey – of being predatory toward it.
- 01.043 and the depredations of dragons,
“depredation, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Depose
- 14.033 For what fault am I to be deposed?
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