Eldamo : Quenya : (o)combë

Q. (o)combë n. “gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection” (Category: Other Collective Words)

Q. (o)combë, n. “gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection, *congregation” (Category: Other Collective Words): ᴱQ. lesta “gathering, assembly”; ᴱQ. lielesta “folk moot”

A word appearing as okombe or kombe “gathering, assembly/~age, collection” in notes from around 1959-60, derived from the root √KOB or √KOM “gather, collect” (PE17/157-158).

Neo-Quenya: Helge Fauskanger also used ocombe to mean “*congregation” in his Neo-Quenya New Testament (NQNT).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. soleste “collection”, a combination of ᴱQ. so- “together” and ᴱQ. lesta “gathering” (QL/85).

References ✧ PE17/157-158

Glosses

“gathering, assembly, assemblage, collection” ✧ PE17/158 (okombe); PE17/157 ((o)kombe)

Variations

(o)kombe ✧ PE17/157
okombe ✧ PE17/158
kombe ✧ PE17/158

Element In

ᴺQ. !élicombë “galaxy, collection of stars”
ᴺQ. !námocombë “tribunal”
ᴺQ. !(o)combëa “collective, assembled, cooperative, concerted, corporate, consolidated”
ᴺQ. !tarcombe “court, (lit.) high-assembly”

Derivations

< √KOM “gather, collect” ✧ PE17/157 (KOM); PE17/158

Phonetic Developments

√KOM > (o)kombe	[kombe]	✧ PE17/157
√KOM > okombe	[okombe]	✧ PE17/158

ᴱQ. soleste n. “collection” (Category: Other Collective Words)

See Q. (o)combë for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/85 ✧ “collection”

Elements

so-	“grouped, together”		✧ QL/85
lesta	“gathering, assembly”	suffix	✧ QL/85 (#leste)