Primitive elvish

khol

root. shut, close

khol

root. crow, cry aloud

A root appearing in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s with the gloss “crow, cry aloud”, serving as the basis for primitive words for male and female chickens (PE21/82). It may be a later iteration of the early root ᴱ√HO(HO) “shout, scream” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/40), a primitive form that was mentioned again as ᴹ✶hō- “shout” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/39).

Derivatives

  • khollō̆ “cock” ✧ PE21/82
    • ᴺQ. hollo “cock, cockerel, rooster”
    • ᴺS. holl “cock, cockerel, rooster”
  • kholyē “hen” ✧ PE21/82
  • ᴺQ. “owl”
  • ᴺQ. hollë “shout”
  • ᴺQ. holtu- “to call out, *shout”

Variations

  • KHOL ✧ PE21/82
Primitive elvish [PE21/82] Group: Eldamo. Published by

skol

root. shut, close

A root appearing in notes on the Words, Phrase, and Passages from the Lord of the Rings with two variants √KHOL and √SKOL and the gloss “shut, close”; it served as the basis for S. Fen Hollen “Shut Door” (PE17/98). The roots were followed by a series of unglossed Quenya forms all beginning with hol-.

Neo-Eldarin: The note where it appeared does not provide enough information to determine whether this root was √KHOL or √SKOL, but elsewhere √KHOL appeared with the gloss “crow, cry aloud” (PE21/82), so for purposes of Neo-Eldarin I think it’s better to assume this root was √SKOL “shut, close”.

Derivatives

  • Q. holdë “[unglossed]” ✧ PE17/098
  • Q. holla “?shut” ✧ PE17/098
  • Q. holya- “to shut, close” ✧ PE17/098
  • S. hol- “to close, shut” ✧ PE17/098

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Variations

  • KHOL ✧ PE17/098; PE17/157
Primitive elvish [PE17/098; PE17/157; PE17/184] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kawāk

noun. crow

Derivations

  • KAWAK “*caw, croak”

Derivatives

  • Q. quáco “crow” ✧ WJ/395

Variations

  • ✧ VT47/36
  • k(a)wāk ✧ WJ/395
Primitive elvish [VT47/36; WJ/395] Group: Eldamo. Published by