The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 - J. R. R. Tolkien [158]
Kémi QL gives kemi ‘earth, soil, land’ and kemen ‘soil’, from root KEME. The Gnomish name is Címir, which="Q." Kémi ‘Mother Earth’. There is also a Gnomish word grosgen ‘soil’ in which -gen is said to="Q." kémi.
Koivië-néni ‘Waters of Awakening.’ In QL under root KOYO ‘have life’ are derivatives koi, koirë ‘life’, koitë ‘living being’, koina, koirëa ‘alive’, koiva ‘awake’, koivië ‘awakening’. In GL are cuil ‘life’, cuith ‘life, living body’, etc.; cwiv- ‘be awake’, cwivra- ‘awaken’, cuivros ‘awakening’: Nenin a Gwivros ‘Waters of Awakening’. For -néni, Nenin see Neni Erúmëar.
Kópas QL has kópa ‘harbour’, the only word given under root KOPO ‘keep, guard’. GL has gobos ‘haven’, with a reference to Q. kópa, kópas; also gob ‘hollow of hand’, gobli ‘dell’.
Kôr In QL this name is given under the root KORO ‘revere?’, with the note ‘the ancient town built above the rocks of Eldamar, whence the fairies marched into the world’ also placed here are korda ‘temple’, kordon ‘idol’. The Gnomish form is here given as Côr, but in GL Côr (‘the hill of the fairies and the town thereon near the shores of the Bay of Faëry’) was replaced by Gwâr, Goros ‘="Q." Kôr the town on the round hill’. This interpretation of the name Kôr clearly replaces that in QL, which belongs with the earliest layer of entries. See further under korin.
korin See Kôr. In QL there is a second root KORO (i.e. distinct from that which gave Kôr); this has the meaning ‘be round, roll’, and has such derivatives as korima ‘round’, kornë ‘loaf’, also korin ‘a circular enclosure, especially on a hill-top’. At the same time as Côr was replaced by Gwâr, Goros in GL the word gorin (gwarin) ‘circle of trees, ="=Q." korin’ was entered, and all these forms derive from the same root (gwas- or gor- < guor="Q." kor-), which would seem to signify ‘roundness’ so in the tale of The Coming of the Elves ‘the Gods named that hill Kôr by reason of its roundness and its smoothness’ (p. 122).
Koromas A separate and early entry in QL defines Kormas (the form in the text before emendation to Koromas, p. 22) thus: ‘the new capital of the fairies after their retreat from the hostile world to Tol Eressëa, now Inwinórë. It was named in memory of Kôr and because of its great tower was called also Kortirion.’ For -mas see Eldamar.
Kortirion The word tirion ‘a mighty tower, a city on a hill’ is given in QL under root TIRI ‘stick up’, with tinda ‘spike’, tirin ‘tall tower’, tirios ‘a town with walls and towers’. There is also another root TIRI, differing in the nature of the medial consonant, with meaning ‘watch, guard, keep; look at, observe’, whence tiris ‘watch, vigil’, etc. In GL are tir- ‘look out for, await’, tirin (poetic form tirion) ‘watch-tower, turret’, Tirimbrithla ‘the Tower of Pearl’ (see Silmarilli).
Kosomot Son of Melko (see p. 93). With a different second element, Kosomoko, this name is found in QL under root MOKO ‘hate’ (mokir ‘I hate’), and the corresponding Gnomish form is there said to be Gothmog. The first element is from root KOSO ‘strive’, in Gnomish goth ‘war, strife’, with many derivative words.
Kulullin This name is not among the derivatives of KULU ‘gold’ in QL, nor does it appear with the Gnomish words (mostly names of the Sun) containing culu in GL. For the meaning of culu in Gnomish see Ilsaluntë.
Laisi See Tári-Laisi.
Laurelin QL has laurë ‘gold (much the same as kulu)’, laurina ‘golden’. laurë is the final l of tilkal (p. 100, where it is said to be the ‘magic’ name of gold, as ilsa of silver). The Gnomish words are glôr ‘gold’, glôrin, glôriol ‘golden’, but GL gives no names of the Golden Tree. Cf. Bráglorin, Glorvent.
limpë limpë ‘drink of the fairies’ is given in QL under root LIPI, with lipte- ‘to drip’, liptë ‘a little drop’, lipil ‘little glass