Re: Dwarves and all.

Raymond Brown wrote:

> Did he also use 'dwarven' on the analogy of 'elven'?
He did not.  He used "dwarvish" and also nominal compounds in "dwarf", as
in "dwarf-king" (cf. "Elven-king").  AFAIK the adjective "dwarven"
first appeared in print in the original _Dungeons and Dragons_ manuals.

> The -v- is not etymologically correct and could only have arisen either
> through analogy with words like elf~elves, wolf~wolves etc., or through
> deliberate coinage.
Evidently analogy in this case, rather than deliberate coining.

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