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Early Quenya

hon

noun. heart

Changes

  • hondolonda “heart” ✧ PE13/162

Cognates

  • En. lhonn “heart” ✧ PE13/149; PE13/162
  • G. honn “heart”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√HONO “*heart” ✧ QL/040

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√HONO > hon[xondo] > [xondǝ] > [xond] > [hond] > [hon]✧ QL/040

Variations

  • londa ✧ PE13/149; PE13/162
  • hondo ✧ PE13/162 (hondo); QL/040
  • honde ✧ PE16/137
  • hon ✧ QL/040
Early Quenya [PE13/149; PE13/162; PE15/32; PE16/137; QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hon

noun. stone, rock

Changes

  • ŋondahond- ✧ PE13/162

Cognates

  • En. gonn “stone, rock” ✧ PE13/162

Derivations

Variations

  • ŋonda ✧ PE13/162 (ŋonda)
  • ŋondō ✧ PE13/162 (ŋondō)
Early Quenya [PE13/162] Group: Eldamo. Published by

honde

noun. heart

hondo

noun. heart

ondo

noun. stone, rock

Cognates

  • G. gonn “(great) stone, rock” ✧ LT2A/Gondolin; PE15/25

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ƷONO “hard” ✧ LT1A/Gondolin; QL/070

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√ONO¹ > ondo[ɣondō] > [ɣondo] > [ondo]✧ QL/070

Variations

  • ond(o) ✧ PME/070
Early Quenya [LT1A/Gondolin; LT2A/Gondolin; MC/213; MC/214; MC/220; MC/221; PE14/043; PE14/044; PE14/070; PE14/073; PE14/107; PE15/25; PE15/77; PE16/057; PE16/060; PE16/062; PE16/064; PE16/065; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/077; PE16/111; PE16/113; PE16/114; PE16/115; PE16/138; PME/070; QL/070] Group: Eldamo. Published by

holle

noun. shout

Derivations

  • ᴱ√HO “shout, scream” ✧ QL/040

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√HO > holle[xollē] > [xolle] > [holle]✧ QL/040
Early Quenya [QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by

londa

noun. heart

hu

pronoun. he; 3rd sg. masc. pronoun

Element in

  • Eq. (h)úva “*his; 3rd sg. masc. possessive emphatic” ✧ PE14/052
  • Eq. hu·karne ha min “he did it first (i.e. either before anyone else did so, or before he did anything else)” ✧ PE14/084
  • Eq. hu·mate “he eats” ✧ PE14/085
  • Eq. húyo “he (emphatic); 3rd sg. masc. pronoun” ✧ PE14/052
  • Eq. hwa- “his; 3rd sg. masc. possessive” ✧ PE14/052
  • Eq. tára·kasse Taniqetildo, tára·kasisse hu·sórie “on the high top of Taniqetil, on the high peaks he sat” ✧ PE14/078
  • Eq. wingildin o silqelosseën “the foam-maidens with blossom-white hair” ✧ MC/216; PE16/100; PE16/104

Variations

  • o ✧ MC/216; PE16/100; PE16/100; PE16/104
  • hu- ✧ PE14/052; PE14/085
  • u- ✧ PE14/052
Early Quenya [MC/216; PE14/052; PE14/053; PE14/054; PE14/078; PE14/084; PE14/085; PE16/100; PE16/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

o-

prefix. he; 3rd sg. masc. pronoun

tu

pronoun. he

Changes

  • tuhu “he” ✧ PE14/078

Element in

Variations

  • tu ✧ PE14/046; PE14/079 (tu)
Early Quenya [PE14/046; PE14/079] Group: Eldamo. Published by

elben

noun. heart

elwen

noun. heart

A word appearing as ᴱQ. Elben “heart” in the Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin of the 1910s (LT2/202; PE15/23), but as ᴱQ. Elwen “heart” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√LEFE (QL/35, 52). These words were connected to the character G. Elfrith who vanished from later versions of the Legendarium.

Cognates

  • G. elf “heart” ✧ LT2/202; PE15/23
  • G. ilf “heart” ✧ LT1A/Ilverin

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LEFE “*heart” ✧ QL/035; QL/052

Element in

  • Eq. Elwenil(do) “Littleheart” ✧ LT1A/Ilverin (Elwenildo); LT2/202 (Elbenil)

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√LEFE > Elwen[elɸen] > [elβen] > [elwen]✧ QL/035
ᴱ√LEFE > elwen[elɸen] > [elβen] > [elwen]✧ QL/052

Variations

  • Elben ✧ LT2/202; PE15/23
  • Elwen ✧ QL/035
Early Quenya [LT1A/Ilverin; LT2/202; PE15/23; QL/035; QL/052] Group: Eldamo. Published by

u-

prefix. he; 3rd sg. masc. pronoun