Quenya 

hloa

hloä

hloa ("hloä"), noun that "would have been" the product of primitive ¤sloga (Sindarin lhô), a word used of rivers that were "variable and liable to overflow their banks at seasons". However, the wording "would have been" may seem to suggest that this word did not actually occur in Quenya. (VT42:9)

hlöa

noun. flood, fenland

A Quenya cognate of S. lhô appearing in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s, rejected when Tolkien revised the primitive form {✶sloga >>} ✶loga and the Sindarin form {lhô >>} (VT42/9-10). I personally prefer the earlier form S. lhô which Tolkien used prior to 1968, and as such I think ᴺQ. hlöa “flood, fenland” is salvagable for purposes of Neo-Eldarin, as a derivative of an s-prefixed variant of √LOG. See the entry on S. l(h)ô for further discussion.

Cognates

  • S. l(h)ô “flood, fenland, flood, fenland; [G.] pool, lake” ✧ VT42/09

Derivations

  • (s)loga “fenland” ✧ VT42/09
    • LOG “wet (and soft), soaked, swampy” ✧ UT/263; VT42/09; VT42/10

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
sloga > hloä[sloga] > [l̥oga] > [l̥oɣa] > [l̥oa]✧ VT42/09

Variations

  • hloä ✧ VT42/09 (hloä)

hlöa

noun. flood, fenland