Eldamo : Noldorin : cûn

N. cûn adj. “bowed, bow-shaped, bent” (Category: to Bend)

N. cûn, adj. “bowed, bent, bow-shaped, [G.] concave” (Category: to Bend): G. cam “bent, bowed; submissive, humble”; G. crinc “bent and thin; crescent”; G. naud “bowed, bent; ashamed, abashed, bashful”; G. caug² “humped, bulging; bent”

An adjective in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “ bowed, bow-shaped, bent” derived from primitive ᴹ✶kuʒnā under the root ᴹ√KUƷ “bow” (Ety/KUƷ).

Conceptual Development: G. cûn “bowed, bent, concave” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, along with variant forms cunwed, cuvon (GL/27).

Reference ✧ Ety/KUƷ ✧ “bowed, bow-shaped, bent”

Cognates

Dan. cogn “bowed, bow-shaped, bent” ✧ Ety/KUƷ
Ilk. caun “bowed, bow-shaped, bent” ✧ Ety/KUƷ

Derivations

< ᴹ✶kuʒnā “bowed, bow-shaped, bent” ✧ Ety/KUƷ
- < ᴹ√KU(Ʒ) “bow” ✧ Ety/KUƷ (KUƷ)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶kuʒnā > cûn

[kuɣnā] > [kugnā] > [kugna] > [kuŋna] > [kūna] > [kūn]

✧ Ety/KUƷ

G. cûn adj. “bowed, bent, concave” (Category: to Bend)

See N. cûn for discussion.

References ✧ GL/27

Glosses

“bowed, bent, concave” ✧ GL/27

Variations

cûn ✧ GL/27
cunwed ✧ GL/27
cuvon ✧ GL/27

Elements

cû

“bow, crescent; the waxing or waning moon”

✧ GL/27