Eldamo : Early Noldorin : cas

ᴱN. cas n. “skull” (Category: Skull)

⚠️ᴱN. cas, n. “skull, [G.] head” (Category: Skull): ᴺS. corob “skull”; S. dol(l) “head, hill”

A noun appearing as G. cas “head, skull” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where Tolkien said it was “only used of physical head of bodies” (GL/25). It was clearly derived from the early root ᴱ√KASA “head” (QL/31). The word ᴱN. cas “skull” reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/140). Given the tendency of non-initial s to vanish in later iterations of the language (something that was not a feature of Gnomish of the 1910s), Tolkien likely abandoned this word; in The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹ√KAS “head” had no Noldorin derivatives (Ety/KAS).

Reference ✧ PE13/140 ✧ “skull”

Derivations

< ᴱ√KASA “head”

G. cas n. “head, skull” (Category: Head)

See ᴱN. cas for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/25 ✧ Cas “head, skull”

Element In

G. cafalon “bald, *(lit.) head-naked”
G. cathor “helmet, (lit.) head-ward” ✧ GL/25 (†cathwar)

Cognates

ᴱQ. kar “head”

Derivations

< ᴱ√KASA “head”