Gnomish
cas
noun. head, skull
Cognates
- Eq. kar “head”
Derivations
- ᴱ√KASA “head”
Element in
Variations
- Cas ✧ GL/25
ontha
pronoun. his
Element in
- G. nôbi i·mab ’len suila ontha “*he took the slender hand of his daughter” ✧ GG/11
nôl
noun. head
Cognates
- Eq. nóla “summit, head, top (only used of mountains etc.); (round) hill; crown of head” ✧ GL/61
Derivations
corob
noun. skull
Derivations
- ᴱ√KORO “be round, roll”
A word appearing as G. corob “a skull” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/26), likely related to ᴱ√KORO “be round” (QL/48).
Neo-Sindarin: Since √KOR “round” survived in Tolkien’s later conception of the languages, I’d retain this word as ᴺS. corob “skull”, especially since other early “skull” words such as ᴱN. cas derived from ᴱ√KASA “head” were probably no longer viable since non-initial s generally vanished in Sindarin.