Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LOYO

ᴱ√LOYO root. “*thirst, parched”

⚠️ᴱ√LOYO root. “*thirst, parched”: √LOY “go wrong, fail, [ᴹ√] miss, fail to go; ⚠️lack, be without”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives mostly having to do with thirst such as ᴱQ. loima “parched, dry”, ᴱQ. loime “thirst”, and ᴱQ. loyo- “be thirsty” (QL/55). Tolkien first gave the root as LOẎO, indicating an ancient palatal [c] or [ɟ], but changed it to LOY̯O indicating ancient [j]. It also had derivatives in contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, such as G. luib “thirsty” and G. luista- “to parch, dry up” (GL/55). In Tolkien’s later writing, the root √LOY has to do with failure and mistakes.

References ✧ QL/56

Variations

LOY̯O ✧ QL/56
LOẎO ✧ QL/56

LOYO “*thirst, parched” is similar in sense to ARA¹ “(be) dry”
LOYO “*thirst, parched” later had the sense ᴹ√LOY “lack, be without; miss, fail to go”

Changes

LOẎO >> LOY̯O ✧ QL/56

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. loima “parched, dry” ✧ QL/56
> ᴱQ. loime “thirst” ✧ QL/56
- ⇒ ᴱQ. loimea “thirsty” ✧ QL/56
> ᴱQ. loire “thirsty” ✧ QL/56
> ᴱQ. loyo- “be thirsty (impers.)” ✧ QL/56
> G. luib “thirsty”
- ⇒ G. magruluib “bloodthirsty”
> G. luist “thirst”
- ⇒ G. magruluist “bloodthirstiness”
> G. luista- “to be thirsty; to parch, dry up”