samna

wooden post

samna (þ) noun "wooden post" (STAB)

samna

noun. delved hole, pit

Derivations

• ✶sapnā “delved hole, pit” ✧ PE19/086
  • √SAP “*dig” ✧ PE19/086

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶sapnā > samna	[sapnā] > [sabnā] > [samnā] > [samna]	✧ PE19/086

samnar

diphthongs

samnar noun "diphthongs" (sg. #samna "diphthong"?) (SAM; in one text probably dating to late 1930s, Tolkien rejects "osamnar" as the word for "diphthong", introducing the form ocamna to replace it. See VT44:13-14.)

osamnar

diphthong

osamnar, noun a word for "diphthong" (actually plural "diphthongs", sg. #osamna?) which Tolkien in the late thirties (?) replaced by ocamna, q.v.

sauna

wooden post

[sauna] (þ) noun "wooden post", changed by Tolkien to samna (VT46:15)

ocamna

diphthong

ocamna ("k")noun "diphthong" (VT44:13)

ocamnar

noun. diphthongs

diphthongs

ohlon

diphthong

ohlon (pl. ohloni is attested) noun "diphthong", used of both vocalic diphthongs and "consonantal diphthongs" like mb(VT39:9)

ohlon

noun. diphthong