Select Elvish Words 3.25-3.29: Sheep, Ram, Lamb
3.25 Sheep
- Q. máma n. “sheep”
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A word for “sheep” appearing in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 as a derivative of ✶māmā (WJ/395). It appeared again in notes from 1968 as a derivative of ✶mbāba (VT47/35), apparently with some amount of assimilation since the second primitive b > m as suggested by Patrick Wynne (VT47/36).