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Gnomish

caum

noun. knob

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “knob” given under the base kava- (GL/25), which is probably the same as the root ᴱ√KAẆA “stoop” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (QL/45).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KAẆA “stoop” ✧ GL/25

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√kava- > caum[kaβm] > [kavm] > [kauk]✧ GL/25