holyë
noun. hen
Cognates
- ᴺS. huil “hen”
Derivations
porochuil
noun. hen
Elements
Word Gloss porog “fowl (domestic), *chicken” huil “hen”
huil
noun. hen
Cognates
- ᴺQ. holyë “hen”
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺS. porochuil “hen”
hŷl
noun. hen
Derivations
porokē
noun. hen
Derivations
- √POROK “hen”
Derivatives
- ᴺQ. porocë “hen, barn fowl, *chicken”
porok
root. hen
Derivatives
Variations
- porok ✧ VT47/36
- korok ✧ VT47/36
korok
root. hen
kholyē
noun. hen
Derivations
- √KHOL “crow, cry aloud” ✧ PE21/82
Derivatives
Variations
- kholjē ✧ PE21/82
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porogwil
noun. hen
The word G. porogwil appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a combination of G. porog “fowl (domestic)” and G. uil “hen” (GL/64, 74).
Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this word as ᴺS. porochuil for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, updating the second element to the neologism ᴺS. huil “hen”. The longer form is better distinguished from ᴺS. huil “bitch, female dog”.
Variations
- porog-wil ✧ GL/74
uil
noun. hen
The word G. uil “hen” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/74), almost certainly a cognate of ᴱQ. oi “bird, hen” which Tolkien considered deriving from ᴱ√OHO “cry” (QL/69). In Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s, Tolkien had the primitive word ✶kholjē “hen” derived from the root √KHOL “crow, cry aloud” (PE21/82), which may be a later iteration of this Gnomish uil “hen” word.
Neo-Sindarin: Based on the above, Gábor Lőrinczi proposed a neologism ᴺS. hŷl “hen” as recorded in the VQP (VQP). However, my analysis of Sindarin phonology indicates that ᴺS. huil is the more likely result ✶kholjē: compare thuil and thuin plurals of thôn and thôl, and possibly also ruin < ✱runyā and fuir < ✱forya. For further details see the entry on how [[s|final [i] intruded into preceding syllable]] in Sindarin.
In any case, I recommend ᴺS. huil for “hen” in Neo-Sindarin, or its more elaborate form ᴺS. porochuil.
Derivations
- ᴱ√OHO “*egg”
Element in
- G. porogwil “hen” ✧ GL/74
poroke
noun. barn fowl, hen
The word ᴱQ. poroke “barn fowl” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, along with a second gloss “hen” that was deleted (QL/75). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien glossed ᴱQ. poroke as “hen” (PE16/132). In Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s, Tolkien had primitive words ✶porokĭ “fowl” and ✶porokē “hen” (PE21/82). Finally, primitive onomatopoetic roots √porok or √korok “hen” appeared in marginal notes from the late 1960s (VT47/36).
Neo-Quenya: Given the above, I would retain ᴺQ. porocë for purposes of Neo-Quenya, usable both for chickens in general as well as hens, much as the default gender of the English word “chicken” is female rather than male. For a specifically female chicken, however, I would use ᴺQ. holyë “hen”. The word porocë “fowl” might also apply to domesticated birds in general.
Cognates
- G. porog “fowl (domestic)”
Element in
- Eq. Peksiporoku “Chantecler, (lit.) Cox-comb”
- Eq. porokelle “chicken” ✧ QL/075
- Eq. porokoi “[unglossed]” ✧ QL/075
Variations
- Poroke ✧ QL/075
An onomatopoeic root appearing in notes from the late 1960s with variants porok- and korok and the gloss “hen” (VT47/36). It seems to be a restoration of the form ᴱQ. poroke “barn fowl” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/75) with Gnomish cognate G. porog “fowl (domestic)” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/64). ᴱQ. poroke “hen” reappeared in Qenya Word-lists from the 1920s (PE16/132), and primitive ✶porokĭ “fowl” and ✶porokē “hen” appeared in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s (PE21/82). Thus this root seems to be a pretty enduring notion.