faug

adjective. gape, [N.] thirsty, [S.] gape

An adjective for “thirsty” appearing in names like Anfauglir “Jaws of Thirst”.

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s the word for “thirsty” was G. luib (GL/55) clearly based on the early root ᴱ√LOYO (QL/56). By Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, the word had become ᴱN. faug “thirsty” (PE13/143), and N. faug “thirsty” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√PHAU̯ “gape” (Ety/PHAU). Christopher Tolkien gave faug the gloss “gape” in The Silmarillion appendix (SI/faug), but that seems to refer to the root meaning from the 1930s.

Derivations

• √PHAW “emit (foul breath), *breath, puff of breath, breath, puff of breath; blow, emit (foul breath); [ᴹ√] gape”
  • √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)”

Element in

• S. Anfauglir “Jaws of Thirst” ✧ SA/faug
• S. Anfauglith “Gasping Dust” ✧ SA/faug
• S. Dor-nu-Fauglith “Land under Choking Ash” ✧ SA/faug

Variations

• faug- ✧ SA/faug

faug

thirsty

faug (gasping, choking), pl. foeg

faug

thirsty

(gasping, choking), pl. foeg 

faug

choking

faug (gasping, thirsty), pl. foeg

faug

choking

(gasping, thirsty), pl. foeg

faug

gasping

faug (thirsty, choking), pl. foeg

faug

gasping

(thirsty, choking), pl. foeg

thostol

adjective. stinking

Elements

Word	Gloss
thosta-	“to stink, to stink, *give off a smell”