kamba

noun. bed

Derivations

• ᴱ√KAMA “lie down” ✧ QL/044

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√KAMA > kamba	[kambā] > [kamba]	✧ QL/044

kanwa

adjective. dark red

Derivations

• ᴱ√KAMA “*red flower” ✧ QL/044

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√KAMA² > kanwa	[kamwā] > [kamwa] > [kanwa]	✧ QL/044

Variations

• kanwa ✧ QL/044
• kamba ✧ QL/044 (kamba)

má

noun. hand

Cognates

• G. ma “with instrument or by agent” ✧ GL/55
• G. mô “hand”

Derivations

• ᴱ√MAHA “grasp” ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed; QL/057

Element in

• Eq. malenka “left handed” ✧ QL/057
• Eq. mavoite “having hands” ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed; QL/057
• Eq. Makarnea “Red-handed”
• Eq. marikta “wrist” ✧ QL/057
• Eq. mapalin “plane [tree], sycamore” ✧ QL/057
• Eq. maite “maple”
• Eq. torwa pior má tarasse “*the dark-brown fruit in the hand of the hawthorns” ✧ VT40/08

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√MAHA > maha > mā	[maxa] > [maxǝ] > [max] > [maɣ] > [mā]	✧ QL/057

Variations

• mâ ✧ GL/55; PE15/73
• mā ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed; PE16/137; QL/057

makte

noun. hand

An archaic word for “hand” in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from the early root ᴱ√MAHA “grasp” (QL/57). There are no signs of it in Tolkien’s later writings.

Derivations

• ᴱ√MAHA “grasp” ✧ QL/057

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√MAHA > makte	[makti] > [makte]	✧ QL/057

Variations

• makte ✧ QL/057 (makte)