Eldamo : Gnomish : caum

G. caum n. “knob” (Category: Mound, Pile)

⚠️G. caum, n. “knob” (Category: Mound, Pile): N. dolt¹ “round knob, boss”

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “knob” given under the base kava- (GL/25), which is probably the same as the root ᴱ√KAẆA “stoop” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (QL/45).

Reference ✧ GL/25 ✧ “knob”

Derivations

< ᴱ√KAẆA “stoop” ✧ GL/25 (kava-)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√kava- > caum

[kaβm] > [kavm] > [kauk]

✧ GL/25