gaw

root. think out, devise, contrive

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “think out, devise, contrive”, appearing beside a variant ᴹ√GOWO (Ety/GAWA). Its most notable derivative is the name Q. Aulë, which Tolkien usually translated as “Maker” (S/44) or “Smith” (LotR/1137). Its Noldorin counterpart in the 1930s was N. Gaul, replacing G. Ôla from the 1910s, but Tolkien did not revisit the etymology of Aulë’s name in his later writings. This leaves ᴹ√GAWA as the best known basis for this name, and its 1930s meaning remains consistent with later tranlations of Aulë.

Derivatives

• ᴹQ. aule “invention” ✧ Ety/GAWA
• ᴺQ. auma “machine”
• ᴹQ. auta- “to invent, originate, devise” ✧ Ety/GAWA
• N. gaud “device, contrivance, machine” ✧ Ety/GAWA
• ᴺS. gauda- “to invent, originate, devise”
• N. Gaul “Aule” ✧ Ety/GAWA

Element in

• N. Belegol “Great Aule” ✧ Ety/BEL

Variations

• GAWA ✧ Ety/BEL; Ety/GAWA; Ety/LEP
• GOWO ✧ Ety/GAWA

gāsa

noun. void

Derivations

• ᴹ√GAS “yawn, gape” ✧ Ety/GAS

Derivatives

• N. gaw “void” ✧ Ety/GAS

Variations

• gása ✧ EtyAC/GAS (On. gása)

kum

root. void

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “void”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. kúma “void” and N. caun “empty” (Ety/KUM). It was probably also the basis of ᴹQ. kumba in ᴹQ. saurikumba in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, unglossed but probably “✱foul-bellied” (SD/86).

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. cumya- “to empty”
• ᴹQ. kúma “void” ✧ Ety/KUM
• ᴹQ. kumba “*bellied”
• ᴹQ. kumna “empty” ✧ Ety/KUM
• ᴺS. com “bellied”
• N. caun “empty, void” ✧ Ety/KUM
• ᴺS. covra- “to empty”
• ᴺS. cum “belly”
• On. kūma “void” ✧ Ety/KUM

Element in

• ᴹQ. Avakúma “Exterior Void” ✧ Ety/AWA