ᴺS. [ᴱN.] ammos n. “*breast, chest; ⚠️breastplate” (Category: Front of Chest)
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ᴱN. am(b)os n. “breastplate” (Category: Corslet, Breastplate)
Reference ✧ PE13/137 ✧ “breastplate”
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| am(b) | “breast” | ✧ PE13/137 (amb) |
G. ammos n. “byrne, hauberk, cuirass” (Category: Corslet, Breastplate)
Early iterations of the Elvish languages had a number of different words for “chest” and “breast”. The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. am² “breast, front (chest)” (GL/19), a word that reappeared in Gnomish Lexicon Slips modifying that document along with a longer variant amoth, but with only a single gloss “breast” (PE13/109). The lexicon (but not the slips) had a longer word G. {ambos >>} ammos “byrne, hauberk, cuirass”, an element in the word G. ammogrint or crinthammos “red-breast = robin” (GL/19, 27). Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. amb, am “breast” along with longer amuith “breast”, as well as ᴱN. am(b)os “breastplate”, but all these forms were rejected.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would retain ᴺS. ammos but with the sense “breast, chest” rather than “breastplate”, to serve as the cognate of ᴺQ. ambos (ambor-) “chest”; the Sindarin variant must have been derived from a primitive form with a double-s: amboss-. It might be an ancient combination of √AM “up” and ᴹ√OS “around”, perhaps with the original sense “upper enclosure (of the body)”.
References ✧ GL/19, 27
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| am² | “breast, front (chest)” | ✧ GL/19 |
| #-os¹ | “abstract noun” | ✧ GL/19 (#-os) |
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