Appendix:Sindarin/cabor

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Sindarin

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Etymology

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Only attested in Tolkien’s earlier conception of the language (‘Noldorin’), where it originally meant ‘dog’ before being changed to ‘frog’. Diegetically explained as inherited from Primitive Elvish *kapro, from the root *kap- (‘to leap’).

Noun

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cabor • zw#6Y (plural cebyr)

  1. frog

References

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  • Paul Strack (2008–2023) “cabor”, in Eldamo – An Elvish Lexicon[1]