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Early Primitive Elvish

fapa Speculative

root. FAPA

A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fab- “handle, touch, feel” and G. famp “handling, touching, feeling” (GL/33). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

  • G. fab- “to handle, touch, feel”
  • G. famp “handling, touching, feeling; stroking, caressing, ‘fuss’; fingering, appraising, assay”
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