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S. rûdh n. “bald” (Category: Bald)

S. rûdh, n. “bald” (Category: Bald)

A word for “bald” in the name Amon Rûdh “Bald Hill” (S/204). It sometimes had a variant rhûg (WJ/187).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. cafol or cafalon “bald” from primitive ᴱ✶cas-falon- = “*head-bare” (GL/24).

References ✧ S/204; WJ/187

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G. cafalon adj. “bald, *(lit.) head-naked” (Category: Bald)

See S. rûdh for discussion.

References ✧ GL/24

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cas “head, skull”
falon “naked”

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Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶cas-falon- > cafalon [kasfalon] > [kafalon] ✧ GL/24