Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : HIÞI

?ᴱ√HIÞI root. “*listen”

⚠️?ᴱ√HIÞI root. “*listen”: √LAS² “listen”

A hypothetical early root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. hist “listening, attention” and hitha- “listen, hearken, listen to” (GL/49). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. hist “listening, attention”
> G. hith “listen! hark!”
> G. hitha- “to listen, hearken, listen to”