Quenya
hó
noun. owl
Derivations
- √KHOL “crow, cry aloud”
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Early Quenya
hô
noun. owl
Derivations
- ᴱ√HO “shout, scream” ✧ QL/040
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√HO > hô [xō] > [hō] ✧ QL/040
The word ᴱQ. hô “an owl” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√HO “shout, scream” (QL/40). The word also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/40).
Neo-Quenya: A similar root √KHOL “crow, cry aloud” appeared in notes from the 1950s, so I think ᴺQ. hó “owl” may be salvaged for purposes of Neo-Quenya as a derivative of a variant of that root.