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óma

voice

óma noun "voice" (OM), "voice, resonance of the vocal chords" (VT39:16), "voice /vowel" _(PE17:138, where it is said that the root _OM refers to "drawn-out" sounds; contrast tomba, q.v.). With pronominal suffix #ómarya "his/her voice", genitive ómaryo "of his/her voice" (Nam, RGEO:67). Instrumental pl. ómainen "with voices" _(WJ:391). Adj. ómalóra "voiceless" (VT45:28)_. The term óma is closely associated with vowels, see óma-tengwë, ómëa; cf. also the compounds ómataina "vocalic extension", the addition to the base a final vowel identical to the stem-vowel (WJ:371, 417; also called ómataima, VT42:24, 25), ómatehtar "vowel-signs", signs used for vowels (usually called simply tehtar, but the latter term strictly includes all kinds of diacritics, not just the vowel-signs) (WJ:396)

óma

noun. voice, resonance of the vocal chords, vowel

Cognates

  • ᴺS. û “voice”

Derivations

  • OM “of resonant sounds” ✧ PE17/138
  • ōma “voice” ✧ PE17/076

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
óma-syā > ómaryo[ōmasjā] > [ōmazjā] > [ōmazja] > [ōmarja]✧ PE17/076
OM > óma[ōma]✧ PE17/138
Quenya [LotR/0377; PE17/067; PE17/076; PE17/130; PE17/138; PE18/083; PM/364; RGEO/58; RGEO/59; VT39/08; VT39/16; WJ/391] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sundóma

base-vowel

sundóma (þ) noun *"base-vowel" (sundo + óma), the determinant vowel of a "base" or root (Christopher Tolkien gives the example KAT, which stem has the sundóma A; the stem TALAT has the sundóma repeated; in derivative forms the sundóma might be placed before the first consonant; e.g. ATALAT) (WJ:319)

tomba

voice / vowel

tomba, also tompë, noun "voice / vowel"; the stem TOM is used of sounds "briefer" than the corresponding stem OM (cf. óma). (PE17:138)

ómataina

ómataina

ómataina, ómataima see óma.

ómalingwe

voice-???

ómalingwe ?"voice-???" (Narqelion; in Tolkien's later Quenya, óma means "voice" or "vowel" and lingwë means "fish", but at least the latter gloss can hardly be relevant here)