Eldamo : Early Quenya : ankasse(a)

ᴱQ. ankasse(a) adj. “lofty, tall, (lit.) up-headed, high-headed” (Category: High)

⚠️ᴱQ. ancasse(a), adj. “lofty, tall, (lit.) up-headed, high-headed” (Category: High): Q. tára¹ “lofty, tall, high”

A word given in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ankasse “up-, high-headed” or ankassea “tall, lofty”, a combination of ᴱQ. am- “up(wards)” and an elaboration of ᴱQ. kar (kas-) “head” (QL/30). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa as ankasse(a) “lofty” (PME/30).

References ✧ PME/30; QL/30

Glosses

“(lit.) up-headed, high-headed” ✧ QL/30 (ankasse)
“lofty” ✧ PME/30
“tall, lofty” ✧ QL/30 (ankassea)

Variations

ankasse(a) ✧ PME/30
ankasse ✧ QL/30
ankassea ✧ QL/30

Elements

am(u)-	“up(wards)”		✧ QL/30 (am-)
kar	“head”	stem	✧ QL/30 (#kas)
#-se	“adjective suffix”		✧ QL/30 (#-se)