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Early Primitive Elvish

saẏa

root. hunger

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as ᴱ√SAẎA “hunger” mostly used in combination with suffixal -kǝ, having derivatives like ᴱQ. saike “hunger” and ᴱQ. saiqa “hungry” (QL/82). The root also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon like G. saig “hungry” and G. saith “hunger” (GL/66). Some last indications of this root appears in Early Noldorin Word-lists from the 1920s in the words {saig >>} ᴱN. haib “hungry” and {sais >>} ᴱN. hais “hunger”, with Qenya cognates ᴱQ. saisa and ᴱQ. saiste respectively (PE13/146-7).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is worth positing an Neo-Root ᴺ√SAYAK “hunger” to salvage these early words.

Derivatives

  • Eq. saike “hunger” ✧ QL/082
  • Eq. saiqa “hungry” ✧ QL/082
  • Eq. saita- “to be hungry (impersonal)” ✧ QL/082
  • Eq. saitya- “to starve” ✧ QL/082
  • En. haib “hungry”
  • G. saig “hungry”
  • En. hais “hunger”
  • G. saith “hunger”
  • G. saitha- “to have hunger”
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