_ ”dig, excavate” (QL:82) suggests that this -habar is a lenited form of *sabar*. If the unlenited form is actually habar, read: habar (i chabar, o chabar), pl. hebair (i chebair**).
Sindarin
sabar
noun. delving
habar
sapa
habar
sapa
_ ”dig, excavate” (QL:82) suggests that this -habar is a lenited form of *sabar*. If the unlenited form is actually habar, read: habar (i chabar, o chabar), pl. hebair (i chebair**). 2)
sabar
delved mine
(i habar, o sabar), pl. sebair (i sebair). Isolated from the name Anghabar, ”iron mine”. The root SAPA ”dig, excavate” (QL:82) suggests that this -habar is a lenited form of ✱sabar. If the unlenited form is actually ✱habar, read: habar (i chabar, o chabar), pl. hebair (i chebair).
sabar
mine
(i habar, o sabar), pl. sebair (i sebair). Isolated from the name Anghabar, ”iron mine”. The root SAPA ”dig, excavate” (QL:82) suggests that this -habar is a lenited form of ✱sabar. If the unlenited form is actually ✱habar, read: habar (i chabar, o chabar), pl. hebair (i chebair).
A noun appearing only in its mutated form -habar in names like Anghabar “Iron-delvings” and Nornhabar “Dwarrowdelf, ✱Dwarf-delving” (WJ/209). It provides evidence for the retention of the root √SAP “dig” in Tolkien’s later writing.