Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Gnomish

cas

noun. head, skull

Cognates

  • Eq. kar “head”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KASA “head”

Element in

  • G. cathor “helmet, (lit.) head-ward” ✧ GL/25
  • G. cafalon “bald, *(lit.) head-naked”

Variations

  • Cas ✧ GL/25

ontha

pronoun. his

Element in

Gnomish [GG/11; GL/62] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nôl

noun. head

Cognates

  • Eq. nóla “summit, head, top (only used of mountains etc.); (round) hill; crown of head” ✧ GL/61

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶nold ✧ GL/61
    • ᴱ√NOHO “extended”
    • ᴱ√ƷONO “hard” ✧ QL/066; QL/067

corob

noun. skull

A word appearing as G. corob “a skull” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/26), likely related to ᴱ√KORO “be round” (QL/48).

Neo-Sindarin: Since √KOR “round” survived in Tolkien’s later conception of the languages, I’d retain this word as ᴺS. corob “skull”, especially since other early “skull” words such as ᴱN. cas derived from ᴱ√KASA “head” were probably no longer viable since non-initial s generally vanished in Sindarin.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KORO “be round, roll”