tump (i dump, o thump), pl. tymp (i thymp), coll. pl. tummath
Quenya
tumpo
hump
Sindarin
tump
hump
tump
hump
(i dump, o thump), pl. tymp (i thymp), coll. pl. tummath
Primitive elvish
lub Reconstructed
root. lump
A hypothetical root implied by the primitive word ✶lubbu “a clumsy piece or lump” appearing in both the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) from the 1930s and the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the early 1950s serving to illustrate the unvoicing of double stops in Quenya: ✶lubbu > Q. luppo (PE19/45, 92).
The root may be related to earlier ᴱQ. ulumpe “camel”: although its root was given as ᴱ√ULUN(T) in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien gave ulumpe- in parenthesis beside the root, indicating it was probably an elaboration on unattested ✱ᴱ√LUPU (QL/97). It might also be connected to G. lub “fat, fat flesh” < ᴱ✶lūpe as well as G. lubi “corpulent” (GL/55), especially given primitive ✶slūbŭ “greasy, fat” from Common Eldarin: Noun Structure of the early 1950s (PE22/82).
Neo-Eldarin: I think it is worth positing a variant root ᴺ√LUP “hump” for Neo-Eldarin in order to salvage Early Qenya camel words.
Derivatives
Element in
Noldorin
tump
noun. hump
tump
noun. hump
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “hump” derived from the root ᴹ√TUMPU of the same meaning (Ety/TUMPU). A possible earlier precursor is ᴱN. tuf “lump, knob” from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/154).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. tumpo “hump, lump” ✧ Ety/TUMPU
Derivations
- ᴹ√TUMPU “hump” ✧ Ety/TUMPU
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TUMPU > tump [tumpu] > [tumpo] > [tumpʰo] > [tumɸo] > [tumfo] > [tumfo] > [tumf] > [tump] > [tump] ✧ Ety/TUMPU
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Qenya
tunt
noun. lump
tumpo
noun. hump, lump
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “hump” derived from the root ᴹ√TUMPU of the same meaning (Ety/TUMPU). It is a later iteration of tunt (tump-) “lump” from the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s (PE21/27).
Conceptual Development: Possible earlier precursors include ᴱQ. tupse “lump, knob” from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/154) and ᴱQ. kumpo “pile” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/49).
Cognates
- N. tump “hump” ✧ Ety/TUMPU
Derivations
- ᴹ√TUMPU “hump” ✧ Ety/TUMPU
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TUMPU > tumpo [tumpu] > [tumpo] ✧ Ety/TUMPU Variations
- tunt ✧ PE21/27
Middle Primitive Elvish
tumpu
root. hump
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “hump”, with Quenya and Noldorin derivatives of the same meaning (Ety/TUMPU). It might be a later iteration of the root ᴱ√KUPU “hump” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s which had derivatives like ᴱQ. kumpo “pile” and ᴱG. cub “hollow” (QL/49; GL/27). Alternately, it could be a later interation of ᴱ√TUMU “swell (with idea of hollowness)” (gloss marked with “?”) from the same document, but the one clear derivative of ᴱ√TUMU was ᴱQ. tumbe “trumpet, large horn” (QL/95), which seems unrelated to 1930s ᴹ√TUMPU.
Derivatives
lub Reconstructed
root. lump
Derivatives
Solosimpi
balga
noun. hump
Cognates
- En. bala “round hump, hump, hillock” ✧ PE13/138
Derivations
- ᴱ✶balga “*hump” ✧ PE13/138
Early Primitive Elvish
kupu
root. hump
Derivatives
Variations
- cupu ✧ GL/27
tumpo (stem *tumpu-, given the primitive form ¤tumpu) noun "hump" (TUMPU)