Middle Primitive Elvish
smāgā
noun. soil, stain
smag
root. soil, stain
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smāgā
noun. soil, stain
smag
root. soil, stain
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “soil, stain” with derivatives {mael >>} N. hmael “stain; stained” and {maw >>} N. hmaw “soil, stain” (Ety/SMAG; EtyAC/SMAG). Tolkien first gave this root as ᴹ√MAG⁽²⁾ (EtyAC/MAG²).