N. hell¹ adj. “naked” (Category: Naked, Bare)
An adjective in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “naked” and derived from primitive ᴹ✶skelnā under the root ᴹ√SKEL (Ety/SKEL). This word was originally hall “naked” under an earlier but deleted form of the root ᴹ√SKAL (EtyAC/SKEL). The root ᴹ√SKEL was also the basis for the verb N. heltha- “to strip”, and its Quenya derivative ᴹQ. helda was at one point was glossed “stripped bare” (Ety/SKAL¹), so the word hell seems to mean “naked” in the sense “*stripped (of clothing or other covering)”.
Conceptual Development: There are a couple of earlier “naked” words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s that seems to be similarly derived. G. dautha “naked, stripped” was related to daf- “to strip, flay” (GL/29) and G. hulc “naked” (GL/49) is like the cognate of ᴱQ. hulqa “naked” under the early root ᴱ√HULU “strip” (QL/41). In later writings, some “naked” words were derived from √PAR “peel” instead (PE17/86, 171).
References ✧ Ety/SKEL; EtyAC/SKEL
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| ON. skhella > hell | [sxella] > [xella] > [xell] > [hell] | ✧ Ety/SKEL |
| ON. skhalla > hall | [sxalla] > [xalla] > [xall] > [hall] | ✧ EtyAC/SKEL |
G. dautha adj. “naked, stripped” (Category: Naked, Bare)
Reference ✧ GL/29 ✧ “naked, stripped”
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G. hulc adj. “naked” (Category: Naked, Bare)
Reference ✧ GL/49 ✧ “naked”
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