Eldamo : Sindarin : lhôn

S. lhôn n. “noise” (Category: Noise, Thunder)

S. lhôn, n. “noise; *phone (in linguistics), speech sound” (Category: Noise, Thunder): G. rum “noise”

A word for “noise” appearing in a list of roots for sound words from 1959-60, derived from the root √(S)LON (PE17/138).

Neo-Sindarin: In a post on 2024-05-07 from the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Luinyelle suggested this word could also mean “phone, speech sound”, based on Q. hlonitë “phonetic”. I personally recommend fuller paethlon in cases where a simple lhôn would be ambiguous.

Reference ✧ PE17/138 ✧ “a noise”

ᴺS. !law¹ “sound” vs. lhôn “noise”

Element In

ᴺS. !dollon “phoneme, underlying sound, (lit.) hidden-sound”
ᴺS. !lhongant “allophone, surface sound, (lit.) sound-shape”

Cognates

Q. hlón(a) “noise, sound” ✧ PE17/138 (hlóna)

Derivations

< √SLON “sound, (general word for) noise” ✧ PE17/138

Phonetic Developments

√SLON > lhôn

[slon] > [l̥on] > [l̥ōn]

✧ PE17/138