Hobbit vs Gnome - What's the difference?
hobbit | gnome |
A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
* 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 3:
An extinct species of hominin, Homo floresiensis , with a short body and relatively small brain, fossils of which have been recovered from the Indonesian island of Flores.
* 2007 September 20, Christopher Joyce, “Case Grows for ‘Hobbit’ as Human Ancestor”, All Things Considered , National Public Radio:
* 2011 , (Chris Stringer), The Origin of Our Species , Penguin 2012, p. 215:
A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds
(archaic) An old unit of volume (2½ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).
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A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
* 1996 , , Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee (translators), The Art of Rhetoric'', [1711-1741, Giambattista Vico, ''Institutiones Oratoriae ],
* 2003 , Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion ,
(magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
* 1811 , The Medical and Physical Journal , Volume 25,
* 2006 , Greg Lynch, RuneQuest Monsters ,
* 2007 , Christopher Penczak, Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth and Healing for the New Aeon ,
(mythology, fantasy literature) One of a legendary race of human-like beings, usually imagined as short bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.
* 2011 , Ross Lawhead, The Realms Thereunder ,
A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
The (northern pygmy owl), , a small owl of the western United States.
A small statue placed in a garden to ward off pests and protect a home from sorcery.
* 2011 , Bronwen Forbes, The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide ,
(astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
As nouns the difference between hobbit and gnome
is that hobbit is a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet while gnome is a brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.As a proper noun GNOME is
an open source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.hobbit
English
(Encyclopedic etymology) (wikipedia hobbit)Etymology 1
The word hobbit has an unknown origin. However, as designating a diminutive legendary creature, it fits seamlessly into a category of English words in hob- for such beings. The Middle English word hobbe has manifested in many creatures of folklore as the prefix hob-. Related words are : hob, hobby, hobgoblin, Hobberdy Dick, Hobberdy, Hobbaty, hobbidy, Hobley, hobbledehoy, hobble, hobi, hobyn (small horse), hobby horse (perhaps from Hobin), Hobin (variant of the name Robin), Hobby (nickname for Robert), hobyah, Hob Lantern. The only source known today that makes reference to hobbits in any sort of historical context is the Denham Tracts by Michael Aislabie Denham. More specifically, it appears in the Denham Tracts, edited by James Hardy, (London: Folklore Society, 1895), vol. 2, the second part of a two-volume set compiled from Denham's publications between 1846 and 1859. The text contains a long list of sprites and bogies, based on an older list, the Discovery of Witchcraft, dated 1584, with many additions and a few repetitions. The term hobbit is listed in the context of boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies. The most famous use comes from in 1937, featuring in the novels The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. Ostensibly from a hypothetical (etyl) ''*holbytla "hole-builder".Noun
(en noun)- It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had a little round tummy like a hobbit
- Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.
- And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus , and the Hobbit , and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.
See also
* halflingEtymology 2
Probably from hoppet, hobbet, (a basket).Noun
(en noun)gnome
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)page 125,
- The Greeks in their tongue call this second type of maxim noema''. The gnome''' is more appropriate to the philosophers, and the noema to the orators, to the poets, and to the historians. To speak by '''gnomes alone was referred to by the Greeks as "philosophizing" which we Italians would render as "to mouth maxims" (''sputar sentenze ).
page 386,
- Thus, the gnome''''' concerning the precarious nature of, and the potential suffering in, human life sent by the gods uttered by Electra is deconstructed by her choice of paradigm. By using Tantalos as an illustration, the play overturns the apparent meaning of the '''''gnome .
Synonyms
* adage, apothegm, maxim, paroemia, proverb, sententiaEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 138,
- He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes , spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.
page 52,
- Gnomes are perhaps the most useful of the elementals.
- A gnome' can carry a person with it as it swims through the soil, provided it is strong enough to lift the person. The ' gnome cannot, however, provide air for that person.
page 413,
- Elementals are the consciousness guiding the four classical elements of earth, fire, air, and water. These elementals are depicted as gnomes , salamanders, diminutive faeries known as sylphs, and merfolk, known as undines, respectively.
page 251,
- There were not one but four gnomes standing at his feet. “I nearly trod on you,” Daniel said. “What are you doing here?”
- The gnomes just stood, looking up at him.
page 72,
- My mother-in-law, who swears she is a good Lutheran but is also the most powerful Witch I have ever met, also has at least a dozen small lawn gnomes' peeking out from beside her shrubs, next to the lilac bushes, and hanging out with the roses. My husband has already started our collection; as of this writing, four '''gnomes''' and one moss-covered rabbit hang out in the shrubbery by the front door, two ' gnomes live in the dining room, and one guards the perpetual pile of to-do paperwork that lives next to the computer.