Nauco ("k")noun "Dwarf" (capitalized in WJ:388, but not in Etym, stem NAUK). Naucalië (not *Naucolië) the "Dwarf-people" as a whole. Nauco is a personalized form of the adjective nauca "stunted" (itself sometimes used as a noun "dwarf"); pl. naucor (PE17:45). See also Picinaucor.
Quenya
nauca
stunted
nauca
adjective. stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)
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Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶naukā > nauka [naukā] > [nauka] ✧ PE17/045 √NUKU > nauka [nauka] ✧ VT39/07 Variations
- nauka ✧ PE17/045; VT39/07; WJ/413
Nauco
dwarf
Naucon
dwarf
Naucon (Naucond-, as in the pl. Naucondi) noun "dwarf", variant of Nauco (PE17:45; not capitalized in the source)
Casar
dwarf
Casar ("k")noun "Dwarf", pl. Casari or Casári, partitive plural Casalli. Adapted from Dwarvish Khazâd. Casarrondo place-name "Khazad-dûm", Moria (WJ:388, 389; pl. Casári also in WJ:402)
norno
dwarf
Norno (2) noun "dwarf"; a personalized form of the adjective norna(WJ:413); Nornalië (not *Nornolië) the "Dwarf-people" as a whole (WJ:388)
nauca ("k")adj. "stunted" (VT39:7), "stunted, shortened, dwarf(ed)" (PE17:45), especially applied to things that though in themselves full-grown were smaller or shorter than their kind, and were hard, twisted or ill-shapen (WJ:413). The word can also be used as a noun "dwarf" (PE17:45), the meaning it also had in Tolkiens early "Qenya" (LT1:261), but the distinct noun-form Nauco may be more usual.