lômi

noun. (pleasant) night

A noun translated “night” or more fully “fair night, a night of stars”, a late loan word from Q. lómë (SD/414-5). According to Tolkien, it has a pleasant connotation similar to its Quenya equivalent: “it is a word of peace and beauty and has none of the associations of fear or groping that ‘dark’ has” (SD/306). Some unpleasant words for night and darkness are dulgu, nâlu and ugru.

Cognates

• ᴹQ. lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” ✧ SD/306

Derivations

• ᴹQ. lóme “night, night-time, shades of night, gloom” ✧ SD/415
  • ᴹ√DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/DOƷ; Ety/LUM
  • ᴹ✶dōmi “night, twilight, gloom” ✧ Ety/DOMO; PE21/32; SD/302
  • ᴹ√DOM “faint, dim” ✧ Ety/DOMO
  • ᴹ√DOM “faint, dim” ✧ SD/415

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹQ. lóme > lōmi	[lōme] > [lōmi]	✧ SD/415

Variations

• lōmi ✧ SD/306; SD/414; SD/415