Early Quenya
yak(k)o
noun. ox
Cognates
- G. gagron “yoke ox, bullock”
Derivations
- ᴱ√ẎAKA “a head of cattle” ✧ QL/105
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√Ẏak > yakko [ðʲakkō] > [ðʲakko] > [jakko] ✧ QL/105 Variations
- yakko ✧ PE16/132; QL/105
- yakk- ✧ PME/105
- yako ✧ QL/105
taruku
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).