English
Noun
dwarves
- plural of|dwarf
#*1842, George Webbe Dasent (trans.), The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson, page 8
#*:Then said �riði: They took also his skull and made thereof heaven and set it up over the earth with four sides, and under each corner they set dwarves: they hight thus Austri, Vestri, Nor�ri, Su�ri.
#*1854, Barclay Pennock (trans.), Rudolph Keyser, The Religion of the Northmen, page 299
#*:The belief in Dwarves as inhabitants of the interior of the earth and especially of large isolated rocks, was likewise a direct offshoot of the Asa-Mythology.
#*2001, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Well of Darkness, HarperCollins?Publishers, page 139
#*:When the human magi arrived, Dunner was the dwarf responsible for arbitrating between them and the dwarves as to location and the hundreds of other minor quibbles that seemed likely to turn into major battles, owing to simple misunderstandings of each other's ways.
Usage notes
1966, w:J. R. R. Tolkien|J. R. R. Tolkien, w:The Hobbit|The Hobbit, 3rd edition, HarperCollins?Publishers <!--page?-->
:(1) In English the only correct plural of dwarf is dwarfs, and the adjective is dwarfish. In this story dwarves and dwarvish are used, but only when speaking of the ancient people to whom Thorin Oakenshield and his companions belonged.
Related terms
dwarf
dwarfs
dwarfish
dwarvish
Category:English irregular plurals ending in "-ves"
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