S. hûn n. “*heart” (Category: Heart)
A noun appearing as N. hûn in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “heart (physical)” derived from the root ᴹ√KHŌ-N of the same meaning (Ety/KHŌ-N). This word was not used metaphorically; a metaphorical or emotional “heart” would be S. gûr or ind. Similar but unglossed forms hôn or hûn derived from ✶khōn- appeared in Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/86), which could be later iterations of the Noldorin “heart” word. A prior word S. hû² in the same notes was glossed “hound” or “heart” according to Christopher Gilson.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. {hond >>} honn “heart” which Tolkien specified was “not used metaphorically, for which ilf is used” (GL/49). It was likely based on the early root ᴱ√HONO from which the Early Qenya word for “heart” was derived (QL/40). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien again had hond “heart” (PE13/147), but it was deleted and replaced by ᴱN. lhonn “heart” (PE13/149). The initial h was restored in The Etymologies of the 1930s, as noted above.
Neo-Sindarin: In Tolkien’s later writings, the primitive root for this word sometimes became √khōm (NM/176; PE19/102; PE21/71), which in Sindarin would produced hû. However, I would retain the form hûn as a Sindarin-only variant; compare to the root √TAM which had a Sindarin variant √TAN.
References ✧ PE17/86
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N. hûn n. “heart (physical)” (Category: Heart)
Reference ✧ Ety/KHŌ-N ✧ “heart (physical)”
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| ᴹ√KHŌ-N > hûn | [kʰōn] > [kʰūn] > [xūn] > [hūn] | ✧ Ety/KHŌ-N |
ᴱN. lhonn n. “heart” (Category: Heart)
References ✧ PE13/147, 149, 156, 162
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| lhynn | plural | ✧ PE13/149 |
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