Quenya
quonda
noun. choking smog, smoke
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. KWOD “*choke, suffocate, drown”
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Early Quenya
qonda
noun. choking smog, smoke
Derivations
- ᴱ√QOÐO “*choke, suffocate, drown” ✧ QL/078
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QOŘO > qonda [kʷonðā] > [kʷonða] > [kʷonda] ✧ QL/078
A word appearing as ᴱQ. qonda “choking smog, smoke” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from the early root ᴱ√QOŘO [QOÐO] along with other choking words (QL/78).
Neo-Quenya: I think this word can be salvaged as ᴺQ. quonda based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWOD, but not all Neo-Quenya writers accept quo- as a valid combination in Quenya: see the discussion of how [[q|[wo] became [o]]] for details. If you do use quonda, I would use it for a thick choking smoke (smog) as opposed to ordinary smoke for which I’d use Q. usquë.