A word for a Dwarf (WJ/388), a personalized form of the adjective norna “stiff, tough” (WJ/413), patterned after S. dorn.
Quenya
nauca
stunted
nauca
adjective. stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶naukā > nauka [naukā] > [nauka] ✧ PE17/045 √NUKU > nauka [nauka] ✧ VT39/07 Variations
- nauka ✧ PE17/045; VT39/07; WJ/413
nauco
noun. dwarf
Cognates
Element in
- Q. Pitya-naucor “Petty-dwarves” ✧ WJ/388
Variations
- nauko ✧ PE17/045
- naukon ✧ PE17/045
- Nauko ✧ WJ/388; WJI/Nauko
naucon
noun. Dwarf
casar
noun. Dwarf
Cognates
Derivations
- Kh. Khuzd “Dwarf” ✧ PE17/045; WJ/387
Element in
- Q. Casallië “*Dwarf-folk” ✧ WJ/388; WJI/Kasari
- Q. Casarrondo “Dwarrowvault” ✧ WJI/Kasari
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources Kh. khazād > kazār [kazād] > [kazāð] > [kasāð] > [kasað] > [kasar] ✧ PE17/045 Q. kazār > casar [kazār] > [kasar] ✧ PE17/045 Kh. Khazād > Kasar [kazād] > [kazāð] > [kasāð] > [kasað] > [kasar] ✧ WJ/387 Variations
- kazār ✧ PE17/045 (kazār)
- casar ✧ PE17/045
- Kasar ✧ WJ/388; WJI/Kasari
norno
noun. Dwarf
Cognates
- S. dorn “tough, stiff, thrawn, obdurate” ✧ WJ/388
Element in
- Q. Nornalië “People of the Dwarves” ✧ WJI/Norno
nauca ("k")adj. "stunted" (VT39:7), "stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)" (PE17:45), especially applied to things that though in themselves full-grown were smaller or shorter than their kind, and were hard, twisted or ill-shapen (WJ:413). The word can also be used as a noun "dwarf" (PE17:45), the meaning it also had in Tolkiens early "Qenya" (LT1:261), but the distinct noun-form Nauco may be more usual.