Eldamo : Early Quenya : kumpo

ᴱQ. kumpo n. “pile” (Category: Mound, Pile)

⚠️ᴱQ. cumpo, n. “pile” (Category: Mound, Pile): Q. hamna “pile, (artificial) mound, [ᴹQ.] heap”; ᴹQ. tumpo “hump, lump”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “pile” appearing as a derivative of the root ᴱ√KUMU “heap up”, but Tolkien considered transferring it to ᴱ√KUPU “hump” (QL/49).

References ✧ QL/49

Glosses

“pile” ✧ QL/49; QL/49

Cognates

G. cûm “mound (especially grave), burial mound”

Derivations

< ᴱ√KUMU “heap up” ✧ QL/49
< ᴱ√KUPU “hump” ✧ QL/49

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√KUMU > kumpo	[kumpō] > [kumpo]	✧ QL/49
ᴱ√KUPU > kumpo	[kumpō] > [kumpo]	✧ QL/49