ᴱQ. karneambar n. and adj. “robin, (lit.) red-breast” (Category: Bird (other))
A word appearing as ᴱQ. karneambar “robin” in both the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, a combination of ᴱQ. karne “red” and ᴱQ. ambar “breast” (QL/48; PME/49). Somewhat oddly, Tolkien specified this word was both “adj. or noun”, but then hinted at a specifically adjectival form ᴱQ. [karneambar]a by adding —a on the line below it.
Neo-Quenya: I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. carniambos “robin, (lit.) red-breast” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, combining Q. carnë (carni-) “red” with ᴺQ. ambos “breast”.
References ✧ PME/49; QL/48
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| karne | “red” | ✧ QL/48 |
| ambar² | “breast, bosom” | ✧ QL/48 (#ambar) |
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