ᴱN. amoth n. “shoulder” (Category: Shoulder)
A word appearing as ᴱN. amoth “shoulder” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of 1920s derived from ᴱ✶a-mbod-t’ (PE13/137, 159) and related to ᴱN. bost “back” (PE13/139). In these documents amoth was an element in the name ᴱN. Egallmoth “He of the Wide Shoulders” with an initial element of ᴱN. egall “very broad” (PE13/142, PE13/159).
In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, the name G. Egalmoth was glossed “Broad-back” and it contained G. alm “back, shoulders” from primitive ᴱ✶alđam- (GL/19), while in Gnomish Lexicon slips modifying this document, the word for “a shoulder” was G. {awlan >>} alan derived from ᴱ✶aldǝmā (PE13/109). These 1910s words were probably based on the early root ᴱ√ALA² “spread”, from which ᴱQ. almo or aldamo “back, shoulders” was derived (QL/29).
In Tolkien’s later writings, S. Egalmoth was given an entirely new etymology as “Pointed Helm-crest” (WJ/318).
Neo-Sindarin: Despite the change in the meaning of Egalmoth, I think ᴺS. amoth “shoulder” can be retained for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, reconceived as a derivative of √AM “up” (< *ammots-) and perhaps originally an augmentative using the suffix -oth = “*most up (part of the torso)”.
References ✧ PE13/137, 139, 159
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| emyth | plural | ✧ PE13/159 |
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| bost | “back from shoulder to shoulder” | ✧ PE13/137; PE13/139 |
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G. alan n. “shoulder” (Category: Shoulder)
References ✧ PE13/109
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| alenin | plural | ✧ PE13/109 |
| aulanin | plural | ✧ PE13/109 |
| aulenin | plural | ✧ PE13/109 |
| awlain | plural | ✧ PE13/109 |
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