12.83 Sphere
- Q. coron (corn-) n. “mound; [ᴹQ.] globe, ball”
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A word glossed “mound” in the name Koron Oiolaire “Mound Ever-summer” in the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60, also an element in Corollairë “Green Mound” from The Silmarillion (WJ/401; S/38; SA/coron). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, however, ᴹQ. koron was glossed “globe, ball” and was derived from the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR). If “globe” is its primary meaning, then perhaps it could also refer to round hills as hemispheres.
In The Etymologies, its stem form was korn- as indicated by its (Middle Quenya) genitive kornen, likely the result of the Quenya syncope. The same reduction in inflected forms may apply to the later version of the word as well.
- ᴹQ. pamba n. “ball”
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A word for “ball” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/8).
- N. coron n. “coron”
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A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s equivalent to ᴹQ. koron “globe, ball”, both under the root ᴹ√KOR “round” (Ety/KOR).
Conceptual Development: Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. corn “round ball, &c” (PE13/140) and the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. cross “a ball” (GL/26), both probably based on the early root ᴱ√KORO “be round, roll” (QL/48).