Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : KHIN

√KHIN root. “child”

√KHIN root. “child”: ᴱ√HILI “*youth, offspring”

A root appearing in Notes on Names (NN) from 1957 with the gloss “child” (PE17/157), and again in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 with the same gloss (WJ/403). It was the basis for the words Q. hína and S. hên “child”, which were probably inspired by the Adûnaic patronymic suffix -hin that Tolkien introduced in the 1940s as part of Êruhin “Child of God” (SD/358), originally an Adûnaic word but later on used in Sindarin (Let/345; MR/330). This root might be a later iteration of the early root ᴱ√HILI from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s whose derivatives had to do with children (QL/40). As evidence of this, the Adûnaic word was first given as Eruhil (SD/341).

References ✧ PE17/157; WJ/403

Glosses

“child” ✧ PE17/157; WJ/403

ᴱ√HILI “*youth, offspring” perhaps re-emerged as KHIN “child”

Derivatives

> Ad. *-hin “child, patronymic”
- ⇒ Ad. #Êruhin “Child of God”
- ⇒ Ed. Zimrahin “*Jewel-child”
> ᴺQ. !hinta- “to adopt”
> ✶khīnā “child” ✧ WJ/403
- > Q. hína “child” ✧ WJ/403
  - ⇒ 4 compounds
- > S. hên “child” ✧ WJ/403; WJ/403
  - ⇒ 6 compounds
> Q. hína “child” ✧ PE17/157
- ⇒ 4 compounds
> Q. hindë “[unglossed]” ✧ PE17/157
> Q. hindo “[unglossed]” ✧ PE17/157
> Q. hinyë “baby”