Early Quenya
qolu
noun. disease
Cognates
- G. colu “pestilence”
Derivations
- ᴱ√QOLO “*disease” ✧ QL/078
Element in
- Eq. qolúva “pestilent, pestilential” ✧ QL/078
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QOLO > qolu [kʷolū] > [kʷolu] ✧ QL/078
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A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qolu “disease” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√QOLO (QL/78). This word was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/78).
Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. quolu “disease” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, and would assume it applies to disease in general, as opposed to disease or sickness within a body which would be [ᴺQ.] hlívë. Not all Neo-Quenya writers accept quo- as a valid combination; see the entry on how [[q|[wo] became [o]]] for further discussion.