*húmë (2), see fúmë
Quenya
fúmë
sleep
húmë
húmë
Sindarin
losta-
verb. to sleep
See instead: lor-.
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Middle Primitive Elvish
los
root. sleep
Derivatives
- ᴺS. losta- “to sleep”
Early Primitive Elvish
fumu
root. sleep
A root from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “sleep” with Quenya derivatives beginning with f- such as ᴱQ. fum- “sleep” (QL/38). This root was first given as (deleted) ᴱ√HUMU, as reflected in words appearing in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. hum- “sleep, drowze” (GL/49). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s, Tolkien gave the (unglossed) Qenya verb hum-, which might be a reversion to ᴱ√HUMU. However, in later writings Tolkien generally attributed the meaning “sleep” to the root √LOR and its variants, so ᴱ√HUMU/ᴱ√FUMU was probably abandoned.
Changes
HUMU→ FUMU ✧ QL/039Derivatives
Variations
- HUMU ✧ QL/039 (
HUMU)
Early Quenya
fúme
noun. (deep) sleep
A noun for “sleep” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√FUMU of the same meaning (QL/39). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the glosses “deep sleep, dream”, but the second gloss “dream” was struck through (PME/39). Tolkien seems to have vacillated between the stem forms fūmi- and fūme-.
Changes
fūme→ fūme “deep sleep, dream” ✧ PME/039Cognates
- G. hûm “sleep, slumber”
Derivations
- ᴱ√FUMU “sleep” ✧ LT1A/fumellar; QL/039
Element in
- Eq. fumella “(red) poppy, *(lit.) flower of sleep” ✧ LT1A/fumellar; QL/039; QL/039
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√FUMU > fūme [ɸūmē] > [ɸūme] > [fūme] ✧ QL/039 Variations
- fúmë ✧ LT1A/fumellar
- fūme ✧ PME/039; PME/039 (
fūme); QL/039
fúmë noun "sleep" (LT1:253). Read perhaps *húmë in a LotR-compatible form of Quenya, since Tolkien later decided that fu- tended to become hu-.