cum

noun. mound, heap

cum

noun. mound, heap, mound, heap, [G.] burial mound

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “mound, heap” derived from the root ᴹ√KUB (Ety/KUB). The forms ᴱN. cum(b) “mound” and G. cûm “mound (especially grave), burial mound” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141) and Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/27), but these earlier forms were probably derived from ᴱ√KUMU “heap up” (QL/49). This word appeared in the name N. Cûm-na-Dengin “Mound of Slain” in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/312, LR/147) as well as its precursors in earlier versions of the tales, but later this name became S. Haudh-en-Ndengin.

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I’d avoid this word and use S. haudh. In later writings the root √KUB was given the new meaning “hide, secrete” (PE22/155).

Cognates

• ᴹQ. kumbe “mound, heap, mound, heap, [ᴱQ.] pile; load, burden” ✧ Ety/KUB

Derivations

• ᴹ√KUB “*mound, heap” ✧ Ety/KUB

Element in

• N. Cûm-na-Dengin “Mound of Slain”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√KUB > cumb > cum	[kumbe] > [kumbe] > [kumb] > [kumb] > [kumm] > [kum]	✧ Ety/KUB

cumb

noun. mound, heap

haudh

noun. (burial) mound, grave, tomb

haedh

noun. heap

heap, piled mound