Early Quenya
famba
noun. belly, fat body
Cognates
- G. fam “fat belly, paunch” ✧ GL/34
Derivations
- ᴱ√FAVA “*fat” ✧ QL/036
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√FABA > famba [ɸamβā] > [ɸamβa] > [famβa] > [famba] ✧ QL/036
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “belly, fat body” under early root ᴱ√FAɃA (QL/36).