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Middle Earth

name

Etymology

From Middle English myddelerthe, middelerthe; an alteration of earlier middelerd; in turn an alteration of earlier middenerd; from Old English middaneard (“Middle Earth”), variant of middanġeard (“Earth, the world”, literally “the middle yard, enclosure, or realm”) mis- or reinterpreting its meaning, from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) and *gʰórdʰos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Norwegian & English Midgard (q.v.) and Danish, Norwegian, & Swedish Midgård.

  1. derived from *médʰyos✻
  2. inherited from *midjagardaz✻
  3. inherited from middaneard
  4. inherited from myddelerthe

Definitions

  1. The Earth.

    • And what you’ve not to do is this: bite no bit, and drink no drop, however hungry or thirsty you be; drink a drop, or bite a bit, while in Elfland you be and never will you see Middle Earth again.

  2. synonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm…

    synonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Niflheim).

  3. Alternative form of Middle-earth

    Alternative form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings series.

    • Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information
    • The place might as well be called Noplace; it is a sort of magic island, like Thomas More’s Utopia or Homer’s Ogygia or Aristophane’s Cloudcuckooland—or Oz, or Narnia, or Middle Earth, or Disney’s Magic Kingdom.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Alternative letter-case form of Middle Earth.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA