Eldamo : Early Noldorin : lafn

ᴱN. lafn n. “*animal” (Category: Animal)

⚠️ᴱN. lafn, n. “*animal” (Category: Animal): S. lavan “animal”

See S. lavan for discussion.

References ✧ PE14/70

Variations

lafn ✧ PE14/70

Inflections

leifn

plural

✧ PE14/70

Cognates

ᴱQ. lama “animal, beast; head of cattle or sheep” ✧ PE14/70

Derivations

< ᴱ✶labna ✧ PE14/70; PE14/70 (labnai)
- < ᴱ√LAMA “*animal”

G. cuid n. “animal, living creature” (Category: Animal)

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “living creature, animal” (GL/27), probably the cognate of a ᴱQ. koite “living thing, being, animal” from the early root ᴱ√KOẎO “have life” (QL/48). Cuid “animal” was also mentioned in the Gnomish Grammar (GG/9).

References ✧ GG/9; GL/27

Glosses

“animal” ✧ GG/9
“living creature, animal” ✧ GL/27

Element In

G. i·vrog na cuid arog “the horse is a swift animal” ✧ GG/9

Cognates

ᴱQ. koite “living thing, being, animal”

Derivations

< ᴱ√KOẎO “have life”