Gabil

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Gabil is a Khuzdul element only appearing the compound names Gabilgathol and Gabilān. As Gabilān is glossed as "great river",[1] and Gabilgathol is said to be have been translated into Belegost ("Great Fortress"),[2] one can, as Helge Fauskanger has suggested, infer that Gabil probably means "great".[3]

References

  1. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: III. Maeglin", p. 336
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, p. 274
  3. Helge Fauskanger, "Khuzdul: the secret tongue of the Dwarves" at Ardalambion (accessed 22 July 2011)