ᴹQ. helma n. “skin, fell” (Category: Skin, Hide)
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “skin, fell” derived from the root ᴹ√SKEL (Ety/SKEL). It replaced ᴹQ. halma which was derived from the original form of the root {ᴹ√SKAL >>} ᴹ√SKEL (EtyAC/SKEL). Here “fell” is used in its archaic English sense of “an animal’s skin including its hair”, hence “*hide”.
Conceptual Development: A word ᴱQ. fara “fur, fell” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s from primitive ᴱ✶swada, with sw > f as it did in Early Qenya of the 1910s and 20s (PE12/19); in the phonetic developments of later Quenya, sw > hw (PE19/79). Earliest still Tolkien had ᴱQ. vóre “fur” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√VŌRI of the same meaning (QL/102).
Reference ✧ Ety/SKEL ✧ “skin, fell”
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶skelmā > helma | [skelmā] > [xelmā] > [helmā] > [helma] | ✧ Ety/SKEL |
ᴹQ. halma n. “skin, fell” (Category: Skin, Hide)
Reference ✧ EtyAC/SKEL ✧ “skin, fell”
Changes
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶skalmā > halma | [skalmā] > [xalmā] > [halmā] > [halma] | ✧ EtyAC/SKEL |
ᴱQ. fara n. “fur, fell” (Category: Fur)
Reference ✧ PE13/146 ✧ “fur, fell”
Cognates
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ✶swada > fara | [swadā] > [swada] > [fada] > [faða] > [faza] > [fara] | ✧ PE13/146 |