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Early Quenya

yak(k)o

noun. ox

A noun for “ox” appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants yakko and yako, derived from the early root ᴱ√Ẏak “a head of cattle” (QL/105). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa Tolkien had yakk- “ox” (PME/105). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, the word for “ox” was also yakko (PE16/132).

Cognates

  • G. gagron “yoke ox, bullock”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ẎAKA “a head of cattle” ✧ QL/105

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√Ẏak > yakko[ðʲakkō] > [ðʲakko] > [jakko]✧ QL/105

Variations

  • yakko ✧ PE16/132; QL/105
  • yakk- ✧ PME/105
  • yako ✧ QL/105
Early Quenya [PE16/132; PME/105; QL/105] Group: Eldamo. Published by

taruku

noun. ox