Eldamo : Middle Quenya : kapsa

ᴹQ. kapsa n. “case, vessel” (Category: Basket)

ᴹQ. capsa, n. “case, vessel, *container” (Category: Basket)

A word in the Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s glossed “case, vessel” (PE21/20). It appeared in both a short form kas (kaps-) and longer kapsa (PE21/27). It might be derived from ᴹ√KAB “hollow” as suggested by Raccoon in a Discord chat from 2022. If so, its general meaning might be “*container”.

References ✧ PE21/20, 27

Glosses

“case” ✧ PE21/27 (kas)
“case, vessel” ✧ PE21/20 (kas)

Variations

kapsa ✧ PE21/27
kas ✧ PE21/20; PE21/27

Inflections

kapsa	accusative	✧ PE21/27
kapsin	nominative plural	✧ PE21/27
kapsulin	nominative plural	✧ PE21/27
[ka]ps-	stem	✧ PE21/20

Element In

ᴺQ. !lótecas “vase, (lit.) flower-vessel”
ᴺQ. !parmacas “bookcase”
ᴺQ. !tiquas “crucible, (lit.) melt-vessel”

Derivations

< ᴹ√KAB¹ “hollow”