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casarrondo

place name. Dwarrowvault

The Quenya name of Khazad-dûm (WJ/389), a compound of Casar “Dwarf” and rondo “vault”.

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

WordGloss
Casar“Dwarf”
rondo“vaulted or arched roof, vaulted hall, vaulted or arched roof, vaulted hall; [ᴹQ.] cavern, cave”
Quenya [WJ/389; WJ/397; WJI/Casarrondo; WJI/Hadhodrond; WJI/Kasari; WJI/Khazad-dûm] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Casar

dwarf

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)

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)