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Qenya 

helma

noun. skin, fell, skin, fell, *hide

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “skin, fell” derived from the root ᴹ√SKEL (Ety/SKEL). It replaced ᴹQ. halma which was derived from the original form of the root {ᴹ√SKAL >>} ᴹ√SKEL (EtyAC/SKEL). Here “fell” is used in its archaic English sense of “an animal’s skin including its hair”, hence “✱hide”.

Conceptual Development: A word ᴱQ. fara “fur, fell” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s from primitive ᴱ✶swada, with sw > f as it did in Early Qenya of the 1910s and 20s (PE12/19); in the phonetic developments of later Quenya, sw > hw (PE19/79). Earliest still Tolkien had ᴱQ. vóre “fur” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√VŌRI of the same meaning (QL/102).

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶skelmā “skin, fell” ✧ Ety/SKEL
    • ᴹ√SKEL “*strip” ✧ Ety/SKEL; EtyAC/SKEL

Element in

  • ᴺQ. helmolpë “wine-skin, (lit.) skin-bottle”
  • ᴺQ. helmunquë “wrinkle, (lit.) skin-hollow”
  • ᴺQ. teccelma “scroll, parchment, (lit.) writing-skin”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶skelmā > helma[skelmā] > [xelmā] > [helmā] > [helma]✧ Ety/SKEL

halma

noun. skin, fell

Changes

  • halma → helma “skin, fell” ✧ Ety/SKEL

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶skelmā “skin, fell” ✧ EtyAC/SKEL
    • ᴹ√SKEL “*strip” ✧ Ety/SKEL; EtyAC/SKEL

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶skalmā > halma[skalmā] > [xalmā] > [halmā] > [halma]✧ EtyAC/SKEL