crist means "cleaver, sword" in Noldorin.[1]
Didier Willis has suggested that crist (retaining the same meaning) could be valid Neo-Sindarin.[2]
Etymology
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 365
- ↑ . "Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary". Jrrvf.com. Retrieved 15 September 2012
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 23