Middle Primitive Elvish
stag
root. press, compress
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹ✶Stangasyandō “throng-cleaver, throng-hewer” ✧ Ety/SYAD
- N. Hadhafang “Throng-cleaver” ✧ Ety/SYAD
krab
root. press
Derivatives
- N. cram “cake of compressed flour or meal” ✧ Ety/KRAB
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “press” used as the basis for the [Noldorin] word for cram (Ety/KRAB). Later Tolkien decided this was a word in the language of the men of Dale; see Wes. cram for discussion.