Ai! Lá polin saca i quettar!
Parf Edhellen: an elvish dictionary requires JavaScript to function properly. We use JavaScript to load content relevant to you, and to display the information you request. Please enable JavaScript if you are interested in using this service.
How do I enable JavaScript? (on google.com).
An unglossed word appearing as S. cāfru in a note from around 1962 derived from primitive (or Old Sindarin) ✶camprû illustrating the loss of nasals before clusters.
Conceptual Development: In a post from a now-defunct forum from 2009, I saw a suggestion that this word was a later iteration of ᴱN. caifr “flea” likewise derived from primitive ᴱ✶kampru, and mentioned in both the Early Qenya Phonology and Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/140; PE14/66). It seems in the 1920s the vanishing m resulted in the diphthong ai, but in the 1920s the long vowel ā.
Neo-Sindarin: I would use the 1962 word as the basis for “flea” in Neo-Sindarin, but it is unusual in that (a) it has a long vowel before a cluster and (b) retains the ancient final vowel u. As such, I would assume the ā shortened and the u vanished, and adapt this word as ᴺS. cafor, with the final r becoming syllabic as usual.