Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : POROK

√POROK root. “hen”

√POROK root. “hen”

An onomatopoeic root appearing in notes from the late 1960s with variants porok- and korok and the gloss “hen” (VT47/36). It seems to be a restoration of the form ᴱQ. poroke “barn fowl” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/75) with Gnomish cognate G. porog “fowl (domestic)” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/64). ᴱQ. poroke “hen” reappeared in Qenya Word-lists from the 1920s (PE16/132), and primitive ✶porokĭ “fowl” and ✶porokē “hen” appeared in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s (PE21/82). Thus this root seems to be a pretty enduring notion.

References ✧ VT47/36

Glosses

“hen” ✧ VT47/36

Variations

porok ✧ VT47/36
korok ✧ VT47/36

porok “hen” [is per editor possibly related to] ᴱQ. Poroke “barn fowl” ✧ VT47/36
KHOL² “crow, cry aloud” vs. POROK “hen”

Derivatives

> ᴺS. !prôg “fowl, hen”
> ✶porokē “hen”
- > ᴺQ. porocë “hen, barn fowl, *chicken”
> ✶poroki “fowl”
- > ᴺS. porog “fowl (domestic), *chicken”
  - ⇒ ᴺS. ^porochuil “hen”
  - ⇒ ᴺS. porogog “the clucking and noise of fowls”