Eldamo : Early Quenya : karneambar

ᴱQ. karneambar n. and adj. “robin, (lit.) red-breast” (Category: Bird (other))

⚠️ᴱQ. carnëambar, n. and adj. “robin, (lit.) red-breast” (Category: Bird (other)): ᴺQ. ^carniambos “robin, (lit.) red-breast”

A word appearing as ᴱQ. karneambar “robin” in both the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, a combination of ᴱQ. karne “red” and ᴱQ. ambar “breast” (QL/48; PME/49). Somewhat oddly, Tolkien specified this word was both “adj. or noun”, but then hinted at a specifically adjectival form ᴱQ. [karneambar]a by adding -a on the line below it.

Neo-Quenya: I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. carniambos “robin, (lit.) red-breast” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, combining Q. carnë (carni-) “red” with ᴺQ. ambos “breast”.

References ✧ PME/49; QL/48

Glosses

“redbreast, robin” ✧ QL/48
“robin” ✧ PME/49

Elements

karne	“red”	✧ QL/48
ambar²	“breast, bosom”	✧ QL/48 (#ambar)

Element In

ᴱQ. karneambara “*red-breasted” ✧ QL/48

Cognates

G. amosgarn “robin”
G. crinthammos “robin, (lit.) red-breast”