kaima

noun. bed, bed, [ᴱQ.] couch

A noun for “bed” in The Etymologies from around 1937 under the root ᴹ√KAY “lie down” (Ety/KAY).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, ᴱQ. kaima was glossed “couch” under the early root ᴱ√KAYA “lie, rest; dwell” (QL/46) and ᴱQ. kamba was glossed “bed” under the early root ᴱ√KAMA “lie down” (QL/44). However, ᴱQ. kaima was “bed” in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s (PE15/70). The form kaimas appeared unglossed in The Feanorian Alphabet of the 1930s (PE22/19), possibly an inflected form of kaima “bed”.

kaimasan

noun. bedchamber

A word for “bedchamber” in The Etymologies from around 1937, a combination of ᴹQ. kaima “bed” and ᴹQ. sambe “chamber” (Ety/KAY, STAB). Its plural kaimasambi indicates a stem form of kaimasamb-.

Conceptual Development: This word first appeared as ᴱQ. {kaitosambe >>} kaimasambe “bed-room” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/46). It reappeared as kaimasan (kaimasamb-) “bed-chamber” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s (PE14/42, 71) and appeared as kaimasan with plural kaimasambi in the English-Qenya Dictionary of this same period (PE15/70). It appeared again as kaimasan (kaimasamb-) in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s (PE21/17, 37). At each earlier stage it had essentially the same derivation as in The Etymologies, so the word was fairly well established.

kaimasse

noun. lying in bed, sickness, sickness, (lit.) lying in bed

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s apparently referring to “sickness” from the original sense of “lying in bed”, an abstract or locative form of ᴹQ. kaima “bed” (Ety/KAY).

kaimassea

adjective. bedridden, sick, bedridden, sick, [ᴱQ.] confined to bed, a-bed

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s apparently meaning “bedridden, sick”, an adjective form of ᴹQ. kaimasse “lying in bed, sickness” (Ety/KAY).