Eldamo : Early Quenya : yak(k)o

ᴱQ. yak(k)o n. “ox” (Category: Ox, Steer)

⚠️ᴱQ. yac(c)o, n. “ox” (Category: Ox, Steer): Q. mundo “bull, 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).

References ✧ PE16/132; PME/105; QL/105

Glosses

“ox” ✧ PE16/132 (yakko); PME/105 (yakk-); QL/105 (yakko)

Variations

yakko ✧ PE16/132; QL/105
yakk- ✧ PME/105
yako ✧ QL/105

Cognates

G. gagron “yoke ox, bullock”

Derivations

< ᴱ√ẎAKA “a head of cattle” ✧ QL/105 (Ẏak)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√Ẏak > yakko

[ðʲakkō] > [ðʲakko] > [jakko]

✧ QL/105