Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : SYAL

ᴹ√SYAL root. “*resound”

ᴹ√SYAL root. “*resound”

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives ᴹQ. hyalma “shell, conch, horn of Ulmo” and N. half “seashell” (Ety/SYAL). The verbs ᴱQ. hyal- “ring, resound” and ᴱQ. hyalta- “strike, make ring” from Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s might be related. If so, the meaning of the root may be “*resound”, and the shell-words might have originally meant “*a resounding thing” based on the noise they made from blowing through them.

Reference ✧ Ety/SYAL

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. hyal- “to ring, resound”
> ᴱQ. hyalta- “to strike, make ring”
> ᴹ✶syalmā “shell, conch, horn of Ulmo” ✧ Ety/SYAL
- > ᴹQ. hyalma “conch, shell, horn of Ulmo” ✧ Ety/SYAL
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !ardahyalma “[planetary] crust”
- > N. half “seashell” ✧ Ety/SYAL
> ᴺQ. hyal- “to ring, resound”
> ᴺQ. hyalta- “to strike, make ring; [with dative] make a phone call to, ring”