hlóna (1) noun "a noise" (VT48:29, PE17:138). Also hlón.
Quenya
hlón(a)
noun. noise, sound
Cognates
- S. lhôn “noise” ✧ PE17/138
Derivations
- √SLON “sound, (general word for) noise” ✧ PE17/138; VT48/29
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √SLON > hlóna [slōna] > [l̥ōna] ✧ PE17/138 √slōn > hlōn [slōn] > [l̥ōn] ✧ VT48/29 Variations
- hlóna ✧ PE17/138; VT48/29
- hlōn ✧ PE17/138; VT48/29; VT48/29
hlóna
noise
ran
noise
ran (ram-) noun "noise" (LT1:259, QL:79)
A word for “a noise” appearing in a list of roots for sound words from 1959-60 with variants hlóna and hlōn, derived from the root √(S)LON (PE17/138). It also appeared in a draft of the Quendi and Eldar essay from around the same time as hlōn “sound” from ✶slōn, an element in ohlon “diphthong” (VT48/29). It appeared in its plural form hloni “sound” in the Quendi and Eldar essay itself (WJ/394).
Conceptual Development: A similar form ᴱQ. lon or londe “loud noise” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√LOŘO [LOÐO] (QL/56).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word mostly for incoherent (and especially non-vocal) noise, as opposed to Q. láma for more coherent (and especially vocal) sound, even though this isn’t entirely consistent with Tolkien’s term Q. hlonitë for “phonetic”. Perhaps the use of hlon- in this term emphasizes that a phoneme cannot by itself be coherent, especially consonantal phonemes (which were the focus of early Elvish linguistics).