sa pron. "it", 3rd person sg, corresponding to the ending -s (VT49:30). Used of inanimate things or abstracts (VT49:37; plants are considered animate; see se). For sa as object, cf. the sentence ecë nin carë sa "I can do it" (VT49:34). Stressed sá (VT49:51). Ósa "with it" (VT43:36). Also compare the reflexive pronoun insa "itself", q.v. In one text, sa is also defined as "that" (VT49:18); apparently Tolkien also at one point considered giving sa a plural significance, so that it meant *"they, them" of inanimate things, the counterpart of "personal" té (VT49:51).
Quenya
sá
fire
sá
adverb/interjection. very good, all right, I will, I agree of course, of course I do
Derivations
- √THĀ/ATHA “ease, comfort, heal; be helpful; be willing to assist (in any work, etc.), agree, consent, ease, comfort, heal; be helpful; be willing to assist (in any work, etc.), agree, consent; [ᴹ√] forward” ✧ PE22/165
Element in
- Q. sáquet- “I will, to agree (to do); (lit.) to say ‘yes’”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √ÞĀ̆/AÞA > þá [tʰā] > [θā] > [sā] ✧ PE22/165 Variations
- þá ✧ PE22/166; PE22/166
- aþa ✧ PE22/166; PE22/166; PE22/166
- aþá ✧ PE22/166 (
aþá)
sa
it
sa
pronoun. it
sa
it (inanimate); that
@@@ in Qenya living things as trees etc. are never regarded as neuter (PE14/44)
Note that most vegetable objects (esp. trees) are rarely classed as neuter or “inanimate” in Qenya - while all things may in nonce-use be personified (PE14/73)
Derivations
- ✶sa “3 sg. neuter [it], the thing, impersonal; this by me, [ᴱ√] demonstrative”
Element in
- Q. ecë nin care sa “I can do that” ✧ VT49/20
- Q. ecuva nin carë sa nöa “I ‘may’ do that tomorrow, I have a chance of doing that [tomorrow]” ✧ VT49/20
- Q. insa “itself”
- Q. merin sa haryalyë alassë nó vanyalyë Ambarello “I hope that you have happiness before you pass from the world” ✧ MS/01
- Q. san “*then, so, thus”
- Q. sana “that very thing (already referred to)” ✧ PE16/096
- Q. tultauvas sa nin “he will send it to me” ✧ PE22/156
Variations
- sa ✧ MS/01; PE16/096; PE22/156; VT49/20; VT49/30; VT49/32; VT49/32; VT49/34; VT49/37
- sá ✧ VT49/51
ruinë
fire, a blaze
ruinë noun "a fire, a blaze" (PE17:183). Compare nárë.
uru
fire
uru noun "fire" (LT1:271)
úr
fire
úr noun "fire" (UR)This stem was struck out in Etym, but a word that must be derived from it occurs in LotR, so it seems that Tolkien restored it. Early "Qenya" also has Ûr, noun "the Sun" (also Úri, Úrinci ("k"), Urwen) (LT1:271). Cf. Úri.
saicë
noun. hunger
Cognates
- ᴺS. saeg “hunger”
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. SAYAK “hunger”
Element in
- ᴺQ. saicelë “famine”
maitië
noun. hunger
A neologism coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), an abstract noun form of Q. maita “hungry”.
Elements
Word Gloss maita “hungry”
sá noun "fire" (LT1:265; "Qenya" spelling sâ. Rather nárë in LotR-style Quenya.)