Ilk. lómen adj. “echoing” (Category: Echo)

Ilk. lómen adj. “echoing” (Category: Echo)

A Doriathrin adjective for “echoing”, a combination of lóm “echo” and the adjective suffix -en (Ety/LAM). Its Quenya cognate lámina suggests a primitive form *✶lāminā, from which the long [ā] became [ō] and the -en developed due to Ilkorin a-affection, as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Doriathrin/lómen).

Conceptual Development: Tolkien first wrote lómin (EtyAC/LAM), perhaps indicating some uncertainty on the exact functioning of Ilkorin a-affection on Tolkien’s part. In the North Sindarin dialect that was in some ways the conceptual successor to Ilkorin, final [a] did not mutate preceding vowels.

References ✧ Ety/LAM; EtyAC/LAM

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Elements

lóm “echo” ✧ Ety/LAM
*-en “adjectival suffix” ✧ Ety/LAM

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Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√LAM > lómen [lāminā] > [lāmina] > [lōmina] > [lōmena] > [lōmen] ✧ Ety/LAM