casarrondo

place name. Dwarrowvault

The Quenya name of Khazad-dûm (WJ/389), a compound of Casar “Dwarf” and rondo “vault”.

Cognates

• Kh. Khazad-dûm “Dwarrowdelf, (lit.) Delving of the Dwarves” ✧ WJI/Casarrondo; WJ/389; WJ/397; WJI/Hadhodrond; WJI/Khazad-dûm
• S. Hadhodrond “Dwarrowdelf, (lit.) Dwarrowvault” ✧ WJI/Khazad-dûm

Elements

Word	Gloss
Casar	“Dwarf”
rondo	“vaulted or arched roof, vaulted hall, vaulted or arched roof, vaulted hall; [ᴹQ.] cavern, cave”

Casar

dwarf

Casar ("k")noun "Dwarf", pl. Casari or Casári, partitive plural Casalli. Adapted from Dwarvish Khazâd. Casarrondo place-name "Khazad-dûm", Moria (WJ:388, 389; pl. Casári also in WJ:402)

Naucon

dwarf

Naucon (Naucond-, as in the pl. Naucondi) noun "dwarf", variant of Nauco (PE17:45; not capitalized in the source)

Nauco

dwarf

Nauco ("k")noun "Dwarf" (capitalized in WJ:388, but not in Etym, stem NAUK). Naucalië (not *Naucolië) the "Dwarf-people" as a whole. Nauco is a personalized form of the adjective nauca "stunted" (itself sometimes used as a noun "dwarf"); pl. naucor (PE17:45). See also Picinaucor.

norno

dwarf

Norno (2) noun "dwarf"; a personalized form of the adjective norna(WJ:413); Nornalië (not *Nornolië) the "Dwarf-people" as a whole (WJ:388)

hadhod

noun. Dwarf

hadhodrim

noun. the Dwarves (as a race)

nogothrim

noun. Dwarf-folk

gorn

Dwarf

pl2. gornhoth** ** n. Dwarf (hostile implication). >> dern

nogoth

noun. Dwarf, lit. "the Stunted Folk"

dern

Dwarf

pl2. dernlir n. Dwarf. >> gorn

naug

noun. dwarf

_ n. _dwarf. [PE17:46] >> cadhad, nogon, nogoth

nogon

dwarf

pl1. nogoth, pl2. nogothrim, naugrim** _ n. _dwarf. _fennas nogothrim lasto beth lammen _'doorway of the Dwarf-folk listen to the words of my tongue'. Tolkien first glosed nogoth as 'a dwarf'. [**PE17:45-6] >> noegin, nogoth

dornhoth

noun. the Dwarves, lit. "the Thrawn Folk"

naugrim

noun. Dwarves

nogotheg

noun. lit. "dwarflet", a name of the Petty-Dwarves

nornwaith

noun. the Dwarves

hadhodrond

dwarrowvault

(na Chadhodrond, o Chadhodrond) (WJ:389)

hadhod

dwarf

1) hadhod (i chadhod, o chadhod), pl. hedhyd (i chedhyd), coll. pl. hadhodrim (WJ:388). This was a word borrowed from Dwarvish Khazâd. 2) naug (in compounds -nog), pl. #noeg, coll. pl. naugrim, nogrim. (WJ:388, 408, 413; VT45:13). In ”Noldorin” the pl. was nuig, but the Sindarin pl. form noeg is attested in Nibin-noeg ”Petty-dwarves” (WJ:187, 420). Note: naug is also used as an adj. ”dwarfed, stunted”. This word for ”dwarf” also appears in a diminutive form: naugol (in compounds naugla-), coll. pl. nauglath. 2)

nogoth

dwarf

nogoth (pl. negyth; coll. pl. nogothrim). Archaic pl. ”noegyth” = nögyth (WJ:388, 408) 3) norn (pl. nyrn, coll. pl. nornwaith). From the adj. norn ”twisted, knotted, crabbed, hard”. (MR:93, WJ:205) 4) #Gonhir (i **Onhir), literally ”Master of Stone”, no distinct pl. form except with article (i Ngonhir = i Ñonhir, maybe primarily used as a coll. pl. Gonhirrim _(WJ:205, there spelt ”Gonnhirrim”) _The coll. pl. Dornhoth** ("Thrawn folk") (WJ:388, 408) also refers to the Dwarves.

naugl

noun. dwarf

naugol

noun. dwarf

nawag

noun. Dwarf