A neologism coined by Hialmr on 01-17-2018 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord (VLDS), cognate to [ᴹQ.] sumba- “submerge” and based on the root ᴹ√SUB “sink (esp. in water)”.
Quenya
quá
noun. duck
Sindarin
sommor
noun. duck, waterfowl
somma-
verb. to dive, duck
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Early Quenya
qá
noun. duck
An (onomatopoeic?) noun appearing as ᴱQ. qā “a duck” in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√QAHA (QL/76). It was also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/76). Later iterations of this onomatopoeia may be seen in primitive ✶kawāk “crow” (WJ/395) and ✶kāwāk “frog” (VT47/36), producing Q. quáco and Q. quácë respectively.
Neo-Quenya: I’d adapt this word as ᴺQ. quá “duck” for purposes of Neo-Quenya.
tub-
verb. to dive
tum-
verb. to dive
A neologism coined by Hialmr on 01-17-2018 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord (VLDS) as a noun form of ᴺS. somma- “to dive, duck”.