Casar ("k")noun "Dwarf", pl. Casari or Casári, partitive plural Casalli. Adapted from Dwarvish Khazâd. Casarrondo place-name "Khazad-dûm", Moria (WJ:388, 389; pl. Casári also in WJ:402)
Quenya
casarrondo
place name. Dwarrowvault
Cognates
- Kh. Khazad-dûm “Dwarrowdelf, (lit.) Delving of the Dwarves” ✧ WJI/Casarrondo; WJ/389; WJ/397; WJI/Hadhodrond; WJI/Khazad-dûm
- S. Hadhodrond “Dwarrowdelf, (lit.) Dwarrowvault” ✧ WJI/Khazad-dûm
Elements
Word Gloss Casar “Dwarf” rondo “vaulted or arched roof, vaulted hall, vaulted or arched roof, vaulted hall; [ᴹQ.] cavern, cave”
Casar
dwarf
Naucon
dwarf
Naucon (Naucond-, as in the pl. Naucondi) noun "dwarf", variant of Nauco (PE17:45; not capitalized in the source)
Nauco
dwarf
Nauco ("k")noun "Dwarf" (capitalized in WJ:388, but not in Etym, stem NAUK). Naucalië (not *Naucolië) the "Dwarf-people" as a whole. Nauco is a personalized form of the adjective nauca "stunted" (itself sometimes used as a noun "dwarf"); pl. naucor (PE17:45). See also Picinaucor.
norno
dwarf
Norno (2) noun "dwarf"; a personalized form of the adjective norna(WJ:413); Nornalië (not *Nornolië) the "Dwarf-people" as a whole (WJ:388)
The Quenya name of Khazad-dûm (WJ/389), a compound of Casar “Dwarf” and rondo “vault”.