Noldorin 

fliw

noun. sickness

Noldorin [Ety/386, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

fliw

noun. sickness

A noun appearing as N. fliw “sickness” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ON. thlīwe < ᴹ✶slīwē under the root ᴹ√SLIW “sickly” (Ety/SLIW). The ancient initial sl became thl which was the usual sound change in (Old) Noldorin, and then this thl became fl, a less common Noldorin sound change. There was also a deleted variant of this root: ᴹ√LIW, where Tolkien had lhîw “disease” with the usual unvoicing of initial l in Noldorin (EtyAC/LIW).

Neo-Sindarin: In Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s, initial sl became lh instead of thl, so most Neo-Sindarin writers adapt this word as ᴺS. lhîw, as suggested by Hiswelókë’s Sindarin Dictionary (HSD). Based on the deleted variant of the root, I would use the word lhîw for both “sickness” and “disease”, both within a body and independent of it.

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. líve “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW; EtyAC/LIW

Derivations

  • On. thlīwe “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • ᴹ✶slīwē “sickness” ✧ Ety/SLIW
    • ᴹ√SLIW “sickly” ✧ Ety/SLIW
  • ᴹ√SLIW “sickly” ✧ EtyAC/LIW

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
On. thlīwe > thliw > fliw[θlīwe] > [θlīw] > [θliw] > [fliw]✧ Ety/SLIW

Variations

  • lhîw ✧ EtyAC/LIW (lhîw)
Noldorin [Ety/SLIW; EtyAC/LIW] Group: Eldamo. Published by

thliw

noun. sickness

Noldorin [Ety/386, X/LH] Group: SINDICT. Published by

paw

noun. sickness

Noldorin [Ety/366] Group: SINDICT. Published by

paw

noun. sickness, sickness, *illness, ailment

A noun for “sickness” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWAM (Ety/KWAM). For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would assume it can apply to general illness and ailment as well.

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. côma {“disease, pestilence, sickness” >>} “disease, illness” (GL/26), related to ᴱQ. qáme “sickness, nausea” and thus based on the early root ᴱ√QAMA (QL/76). This became ᴱN. côm in the Early Noldorin Grammar of the 1920s (PE13/123) and then {cóm >>} ᴱN. pau “sickness” in Early Noldorin Word-lists a bit later in this period, still cognate to ᴱQ. qāme (PE13/140, 152). The new form reflected changes in Noldorin’s phonetic developments: kw &gt; p and ā &gt; au instead of earlier (Gnomish) ā &gt; ō and kwo &gt; ko. These Gnomish sound changes were allocated to Ilkorin in the 1930s: see Ilk. côm “sickness”, also from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/KWAM).

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. qáme “sickness, sickness, [ᴱQ.] nausea” ✧ Ety/KWAM

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KWAM “*sick” ✧ Ety/KWAM

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KWAM > paw[kwāme] > [pāme] > [pǭme] > [poume] > [paume] > [paum] > [pauv] > [pau]✧ Ety/KWAM
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cael

noun. lying in bed, sickness

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