Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Middle Primitive Elvish

krumbā

adjective. *left

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KURUM “*left” ✧ Ety/KURÚM

Derivatives

  • N. crom “left” ✧ Ety/KURÚM
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KURÚM] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kurum

root. *left

A (Noldorin-only?) root in The Etymologies of the 1930s whose derivatives have to do with “left” such as N. crom “left” and N. crumui “left-handed” (Ety/KURÚM). It seems this root had some “sinister” connotations, much like English/Latin uses of left, such as N. crumguru “wiley, sinister, guilty” (EtyAC/KUR). Left also had negative connotations in Tolkien’s earlier writings, such as G. gôg “clumsy; left (hand)” (GL/40). However, in the Ambidexters Sentence from 1969, Tolkien declared that Elves were ambidextrous and had no negative associations with “leftness”. I would recommend against using the root ᴹ√KURUM for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin, sticking to more neutral ᴹ√KHYAR instead.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶krumbā “*left” ✧ Ety/KURÚM
    • N. crom “left” ✧ Ety/KURÚM
  • ᴹ✶krumbē “*left hand” ✧ Ety/KURÚM
    • N. crum “left hand” ✧ Ety/KURÚM
  • N. crum “left hand” ✧ EtyAC/KUR

Variations

  • KURÚM ✧ Ety/KURÚM
  • KRUM ✧ EtyAC/KUR
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KURÚM; EtyAC/KUR] Group: Eldamo. Published by