syal

root. *resound

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives ᴹQ. hyalma “shell, conch, horn of Ulmo” and N. half “seashell” (Ety/SYAL). The verbs ᴱQ. hyal- “ring, resound” and ᴱQ. hyalta- “strike, make ring” from Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s might be related. If so, the meaning of the root may be “✱resound”, and the shell-words might have originally meant “✱a resounding thing” based on the noise they made from blowing through them.

Derivatives

• ᴹ✶syalmā “shell, conch, horn of Ulmo” ✧ Ety/SYAL
  • ᴹQ. hyalma “conch, shell, horn of Ulmo” ✧ Ety/SYAL
  • N. half “seashell” ✧ Ety/SYAL
• ᴺQ. hyal- “to ring, resound”
• Eq. hyal- “to ring, resound”
• ᴺQ. hyalta- “to strike, make ring”
• Eq. hyalta- “to strike, make ring”