An element meaning “fire” in some early names: tanya in ᴱQ. Tanyasalpe (LT1/187), tana in ᴱQ. Tana Qentima equivalent of G. Tôn a Gwedrin “Tale-fire” (PE15/7; LT2/197), and possibly also in ᴱQ. Fatanyu “Hell” (GL/51). Tan(y)a is likely a derivative of the early root ᴱ√tan- (GL/69, 71).
Early Quenya
sá
noun. fire
Cognates
- G. sâ “fire” ✧ LT1A/Sári
Derivations
- ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” ✧ LT1A/Sári; QL/081
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√SAHA > Sā [sax] > [saɣ] > [sā] ✧ QL/081 Variations
- sâ ✧ LT1A/Sári
- Sá ✧ PME/081
- Sā ✧ QL/081
a
pronoun. it
Element in
- Eq. a kálie kulundon “it shone like gold” ✧ PE14/046
saike
noun. hunger
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴱ√SAẎA “hunger” ✧ QL/082
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√SAẎA > saike [saθʲki] > [saθʲke] > [saðʲke] > [sajke] > [saike] ✧ QL/082 Variations
- saiste ✧ PE13/147
saiste
noun. hunger
tan(y)a
noun. fire
Cognates
- G. tôn “fire (on a hearth)”
Derivations
- ᴱ√TANA “*fire, kindle”
Element in
- Eq. Fatanyu “Hell”
- Eq. Tana Qentima “Tale-fire” ✧ PE15/07
- Eq. Tanyasalpe “Bowl of Fire” ✧ LT1A/Tanyasalpë
Variations
- Tanya ✧ LT1A/Tanyasalpë
- Tana ✧ PE15/07
uru
noun. fire
Cognates
- G. ûr “smith” ✧ GL/75
Derivations
- ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
Element in
- Eq. (uru)purnie “conflagration” ✧ QL/075
- Eq. uruvoite “fiery, having fire” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
- Eq. urúva “like fire” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√URU > uru [urū] > [uru] ✧ QL/098
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. saike (saiki-) “hunger” in the Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√SAẎA (QL/82). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, the Qenya word for “hunger” was instead saiste (PE13/147).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would retain the noun ᴺQ. saicë “hunger” based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√SAYAK, but only as an archaic word so I could justify the retention of various famine-related words like ᴺQ. saicelë. For normal speech I would assume ᴺQ. maitië is the ordinary word for “hunger”, a noun form of the adjective Q. maita “hungry” from around 1960.