Вот первый из них - Дидье Виллис, автор словаря "Хисвэлокэ", который так часто нам помогает. Цитирую:
Greetings,
Regarding
Arvernien, it is indeed an obscure word. We do have a possible explanation in Tolkien's Word, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings edited by Christopher Gilson and published in Parma Eldalamberon #17 (2007), where Tolkien wrote: "Q[uenya] Arvernien "(the land) besides the Verna". However, it still leaves us somewhat in the dark, since we do not know what the Verna is (a region or a river or whatever else?!)... You may find some possible interpretations here (
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Arvernien>) and also here (
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Verna), though they remain highly hypothetical.
Dírhaval is the latest form in the typed text of The Narn i Chîn Húrin, and Christopher Tolkien admits he should have used it instead of the older Dírhavel (from the earlier manuscript), see The War of the Jewels p. 315 note 5. Except dír- "man" that you correctly identified, I have no clear clue about its meaning. If I remember correctly (I don't have the book at hand), some hypotheses were made by Wynne and Hostetter in "Three Elvish verse modes" in Tolkien's Legendarium (2001), but nothing very convincing.
Regards,
Didier.

Ждем, преисполняясь amdir, ответа от Хостеттера, Ренка и Держинского, а с мейлом Февкангера какие-то странности творятся

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Upd/ Ссылка на Арверниен не работает, придется копаться через главную страницу Tolkien Gateway. А про Верну я сюда вытащила:
VernaFrom Tolkien GatewayVerna is an obscure location in southwest Beleriand near the Mouths of Sirion.
Arvernien was named after it.
[edit] Inspiration
Verna does not appear in narration or any maps of Beleriand; in the real world Tolkien probably derived the word in order to explain "Arvernien".[1] Since Arvernien means "Land outside Verna", geographically, Verna could refer to adjacent regions like the forest of Nimbrethil or Lisgardh.
[edit] Etymology
Verna could be related to Quenya
feren which means "birch, beech tree" referring to the forest of Nimbrethil.[2] Another possibility is that it refers to a river, obviously Sirion, and comes from the root WER, "winding" (thus, "Winding River").[3]
References
1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in The Lord of the Rings" (edited by Christopher Gilson), published in Parma Eldalamberon 17 (July 2007), p. 19
2. ↑ This connection was suggested by the Encyclopedia of Arda, although it referred to Arvernien, without acknowledging the existence of Verna as an independent word[1].
3. ↑ David Salo, Message 34598, Elfling
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