Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : hlöa

ᴺQ. [Q.] hlöa n. “flood, fenland” (Category: Mud, Mire)

ᴺQ. [Q.] hlöa, n. “flood, fenland” (Category: Mud, Mire)

See Q. hlöa for discussion.

^loxor “swamp, bog” vs. hlöa “flood, fenland”

Q. hlöa n. “flood, fenland” (Category: Mud, Mire)

A Quenya cognate of S. lhô appearing in The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the end of the 1960s, rejected when Tolkien revised the primitive form {✶sloga >>} ✶loga and the Sindarin form {lhô >>} lô (VT42/9-10). I personally prefer the earlier form S. lhô which Tolkien used prior to 1968, and as such I think ᴺQ. hlöa “flood, fenland” is salvagable for purposes of Neo-Eldarin, as a derivative of an s-prefixed variant of √LOG. See the entry on S. l(h)ô for further discussion.

Reference ✧ VT42/9 ✧ hloä

Cognates

S. l(h)ô “flood, fenland” ✧ VT42/9 (lhô)

Derivations

< ✶(s)loga “fenland” ✧ VT42/9 (sloga)
- < √LOG “wet (and soft), soaked, swampy” ✧ UT/263; VT42/9 ((s)log); VT42/10

Phonetic Developments

✶sloga > hloä

[sloga] > [l̥oga] > [l̥oɣa] > [l̥oa]

✧ VT42/9