Quenya
caraxo
noun. skull, *(lit.) head-bone
Elements
Word Gloss cas “head, head, [ᴱQ.] top, summit” axo “bone”
corpë
noun. skull
Cognates
- ᴺS. corob “skull”
Derivations
- √KOR “round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll”
coropë
noun. skull
Cognates
- ᴺS. corob “skull”
Derivations
- √KOR “round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll”
Helge Fauskanger proposed the neologism ᴺQ. caraxo “skull = head bone” for his NQNT (NQNT), but Damien Bador instead used ᴺQ. coropë < √KOR “round”, adapted from Gnomish G. corob “skull”. I prefer Bador’s solution, with the caveat that I think it would likely undergo the Quenya syncope and become ᴺQ. corpë instead, as pointed out by Röandil in a Discord chat from 2021-06-08.