Eldamo : Quenya : felco

Q. felco n. “cave, mine, underground dwelling” (Category: Cave)

⚠️Q. felco, n. “cave, mine, underground dwelling” (Category: Cave): Q. felya “mine, boring, tunnel, ⚠️underground dwelling; [ᴹQ.] cave”

A word for “cave, mine, underground dwelling” Tolkien considered in Notes on Names (NN) from 1957, derived from the root √PHELEK as a possible replacement for felya “mine, boring, tunnel, underground dwel[ling]” < ✶phelgā (PE17/118).

Neo-Quenya: I prefer the root form √PHELEG over √PHELEK (see that entry for details) and as a result prefer felya over felco.

Reference ✧ PE17/118 ✧ “cave, mine, underground dwelling”

Cognates

S. feleg “cave, mine, underground dwelling” ✧ PE17/118

Derivations

< *√PHELEG “*excavation” ✧ PE17/118 (PHELEK)

Phonetic Developments

√PHELEK > felco

[pʰelko] > [ɸelko] > [felko]

✧ PE17/118