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Esgaroth

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  • 12.067 in his young days had been called Esgaroth.
  • 14.002 The men of the lake-town Esgaroth
  • 14.024 and Esgaroth,
  • 14.025 of the people of Esgaroth
  • 14.029 He dived from Esgaroth,
  • 14.031 not king of Esgaroth,’
  • 15.017 in battle with the men of Esgaroth
  • 15.048 the dwellings of the men of Esgaroth,
  • 15.056 In the name of Esgaroth
  • 15.056 contribute to the aid of Esgaroth;

Enchant

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I’m trying to parse the difference between enchant (verb) and incantation (noun).  “Enchanting” is the adjective.  “Enchantment” seems to be the noun of just as much lineage as “incantation“, both from the Latin root incantare – through French “enchanter” in this case and “incantation” in the other.  Hmmm.

To exert magical influence upon; to bewitch, lay under a spell. Also, to endow with magical powers or properties.

  • 01.072 To seek the pale enchanted gold.
  • 07.023 he is under no enchantment but his own.
  • 07.107 in enchanted shape,
  • 07.126 for I have heard that it carries enchantment
  • 08.029 safe across the enchanted stream.
  • 08.035 They had crossed the enchanted stream;
  • 08.037 About four days from the enchanted stream
  • 08.059 was so enchanting that,
  • 08.130 and as the lights went out he fell like a stone enchanted.
  • 12.007 when the hobbit crept through the enchanted door
  • 12.015 and pierced with enchantment
  • 12.098 But the enchanted desire of the hoard
  • 13.020 drawn by its enchantment.

“enchant, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.

“enchantment, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.

Emerald

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This delightful word has clear cognates in Germanic and Romantic language families as well as Sanskrit.

  • 12.096 made of five hundred emeralds
  • 18.034 To the Elvenking he gave the emeralds of Girion,

“smaragd, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.

Embroider

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“En-” or “em-” as before a bilabial plosive like “broider” is all about placing things.  For example, one might place decorations – like braids or “browds” – on cloth with needlework.  Görlach notes that use of the prefix was pretty fluid in Early Middle English.  Tangent, the noun “embroider” can be the person who does the embroidery.

  • 07.093 One bore a white cloth embroidered at the edges

“broider, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.

“† browd, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.

“embroider, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.

Görlach, Manfred. Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Print.