I'd rather just naeg for 'goat' and mauf (strong ablaut) for 'sheep'.

+Александр Запрягаев Oh, but then the S word for sheep loses its onomatopoeic character... :(

We already have Aras for deer

+Jenna Carpenter Indeed, but I couldn't have resisted to use kelebō. :) And let it be said in my defense that *celef could be an alternative form just as in CE (cf. aras, arassō = kelebō, hart, stag [cf. √RAS 'horn'] in PE/21:82). :)

+Jenna Carpenter PE21 also mentions arasse as an equivalent for male deer, whil KELEBE with vowel-distinctions can make both general and any gender-specified.

We can't have enough synonyms

Can't find it, but I know there's a note somewhere that says in earlier language they made divisions between male and female forms and had two separate words, but later just one form remained that governed both, as in English.

In light of the etymologies of paw and raw (PE17:63; = Q. ráma), it looks like the regular Sindarin descendant of CE *mâmâ would be *maw.

Nice, *maw at least somewhat recalls baaing.

I wonder what the most sensible affix or first or second element would be if one wanted to make a distinction-helping compound noun (consider e.g. am-lug, muin-thel) due to the presence of the two already existing maw words... Vs. making a descriptory synonym (not containing the actual animal name from CE) like medli/megli and lhingril.

Of course it happens that we don't know the Sindarin translation for "cattle", but the Gnomish word for it was muin !

+Lőrinczi GáborDo you want me to add these to the VQP?

+Hjalmar Holm I'll do it.