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hloima

poison

hloima noun "poison", "a poisonous substance" (PE17:185)

hloima

noun. poison, poisonous substance

A word appearing in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957 glossed “(a) poison(ous substance)” and derived from √SLOY (PE17/185).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. heno (henu-) “venom, poison” under the early root ᴱ√HEN+U (QL/40), with a variant feno (QL/38). The contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa had only the stem form henŭ- “venom” (PME/40). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien had a completely different word ᴹQ. sangwa “poison” derived from primitive ᴹ✶sagmā under the root ᴹ√SAG (Ety/SAG).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would stick to the 1957 word hloima, used for a specific poison or poisonous substance, as opposed to hloirë for poisonousness or poison in the abstract.

Cognates

  • S. lhoew “poison(ous substance)” ✧ PE17/185

Derivations

  • SLOY “*poison” ✧ PE17/185

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
SLOY > hloima[sloima] > [l̥oima]✧ PE17/185

sangwa

poison

sangwa noun "poison" (SAG)