N. tamma- v. “to knock” (Category: to Hit, Strike, Beat)
A verb appearing as its Noldorin-style infinitive form tammo “to knock” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from primitive ᴹ✶tambā́- under the root ᴹ√TAM “knock” (Ety/TAM; EtyAC/TAM). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road Christopher Tolkien gave the infinitive form as tamno (LR/390), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to tammo in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/17).
References ✧ Ety/TAM; EtyAC/TAM
Changes
Inflections
| tammo | infinitive | “to knock” | ✧ Ety/TAM |
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶tambā́- > tammo | [tamba-] > [tamba-] > [tamma-] | ✧ Ety/TAM |