huan (hún-, as in dat. sg. húnen) noun "hound" (KHUGAN, KHUG). Cf. hú, huo.
Quenya
hú
hound
huan
hound
Sindarin
saur
adjective. used in sense 'bad' of food etc
_adj. _used in sense 'bad' of food etc., putrid. Tolkien seems to have rejected the root SAWA, noting: "No. THAW-, cruel. saura, cruel. Gorthaur-."
saur
adjective. bad (of food), putrid
Cognates
- Q. saura “cruel, evil, vile; stinking, foul; bad, unhealthy, ill, wretched, stinking, foul, [ᴹQ.] evil-smelling, putrid; [Q.] cruel, evil, vile; [Q.] bad, unhealthy, ill, wretched” ✧ PE17/183
Derivations
- √SAW “disgusting, foul, vile; bad, unhealthy, ill, wretched” ✧ PE17/183
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √SAWA > saur [saurā] > [saura] > [saur] ✧ PE17/183
hû
hound
_ n. Zoo. _hound. Q. hú. The gloss might be 'heat'.
huar
noun. hound, wild dog, wild dog
Cognates
- ᴺQ. huar “wild dog, jackal”
Derivations
- ᴹ√KHUG “bark, bay”
Noldorin
huan
masculine name. hound
Changes
huan→ Huan “hound” ✧ Ety/KHUGANCognates
- ᴹQ. huan “hound, hound, [ᴱQ.] dog” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
Derivations
- ᴹ√KHUG “bark, bay” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
Variations
- huan ✧ Ety/KHUGAN (
huan)- Húan ✧ RSI/Húan
huan
noun. hound
Cognates
- ᴹQ. huan “hound, hound, [ᴱQ.] dog” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
Derivations
Element in
- N. Huan “hound” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶khugan > Huan [kʰūgan] > [xūgan] > [xūɣan] > [xuan] > [huan] ✧ Ety/KHUGAN Variations
- Huan ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
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Qenya
huan
noun. hound, hound, [ᴱQ.] dog
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “hound” derived from primitive ᴹ✶khugan under the root ᴹ√KHUG “bark, bay” (Ety/KHUGAN). It was followed a parenthetical form (húnen), likely a genitive, indicating a stem form of hún-. This word served as the basis for the name of the great Valinorian hound Huan.
Conceptual Development: The forms huan and {hwan >>} huan appeared in both the Qenya Lexicon and Qenya Phonology of the 1910s, but in both cases this word was revised to ᴱQ. fan (fand-) “dog” (QL/37; PE12/26). This word was derived from the early root ᴱ√SAẆA < sǝwǝ (QL/82) and primitive forms ᴱ✶swandǝ (PE12/26) or ᴱ✶swǝnd- (QL/82). The vacillation from huan to fan reflects Tolkien’s uncertainty on the development of initial sw- in Early Qenya, either to hw- > hu- or to f- (PE12/26 note #26). The form ᴱQ. huan (huand-) “dog” appeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/132). It appeared again in The Etymologies, with a new gloss “hound”, a revised derivation and a new stem form hún- (see above).
Changes
huan→ huan “hound” ✧ Ety/KHUGANCognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KHUGAN > huan [kʰugan] > [xugan] > [xuɣan] > [xuan] > [huan] ✧ Ety/KHUGAN ᴹ✶khugan > huan [kʰugan] > [xugan] > [xuɣan] > [xuan] > [huan] ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
Middle Primitive Elvish
khugan
noun. hound
Derivations
- ᴹ√KHUG “bark, bay” ✧ Ety/KHUGAN
Derivatives
Gnomish
saur
noun. hound, wild dog
The word G. saur “hound, wild dog” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/67), probably a cognate of ᴱQ. savar “wild dog, jackal” under the early root ᴱ√SAẆA (QL/82).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I’d update this word to ᴺS. huar “wild dog” using the later root ᴹ√KHUG that seems to have replaced ᴱ√SAẆA (Ety/KHUGAN); compare to ᴺQ. huar of similar meaning.
Cognates
- Eq. savar “wild dog, jackal”
Derivations
- ᴱ√SAẆA “*dog”
hûbi
noun. hound
hú noun "hound" (PE17:86), cf. huan, huo