slon

root. sound, (general word for) noise

The root forms √LON and √SLON appeared in a list of roots for sound words from 1959-60 as a general root for “noise”; it had derivatives Q. hlóna/S. lhôn “a noise” and Q. hlonite “phonetic” (PE17/138). Similar forms appeared in the Quendi and Eldar essay written in the same period (WJ/395; VT39/9) and in a torn half-sheet associated with that document, the primitive form ✱slōn was glossed “sound” (VT48/29). It might be a later iteration of the unglossed root ᴱ√LOŘO [LOÐO] in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. londa- “to boom, bang” and ᴱQ. lon(de) “loud noise” (QL/56).

Derivatives

• Q. hlón(a) “noise, sound” ✧ PE17/138; VT48/29
• ᴺQ. hlonta- “to boom, bang, make (loud) noise”
• S. lhôn “noise” ✧ PE17/138

Variations

• LON ✧ PE17/138; PE17/160
• slōn ✧ VT48/29

slōn

root. SLŌN

sloun

root. *descend

Derivatives

• S. l(h)ô “flood, fenland, flood, fenland; [G.] pool, lake” ✧ PE17/136; VT48/27
• S. Lhûn “Deep of Water” ✧ PE17/136; VT48/24; VT48/27

Elements

Word	Gloss
LON	“*haven, harbour”

Variations

• SLŌN ✧ PE17/136 (SLŌN); PE17/185
• SLŪN ✧ PE17/136 (SLŪN); PE17/185
• S-LOUNI ✧ PE17/185
• slōn- ✧ VT48/24
• slūn- ✧ VT48/24
• sloun ✧ VT48/27 (sloun)
• slōn ✧ VT48/27 (slōn)
• slūn ✧ VT48/27 (slūn)