Early Primitive Elvish
fese Speculative
root. *itch
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
fese Speculative
root. *itch
A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fesc “itching, irritating” and G. fesca- “itch, irritate” (GL/34). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth retaining as a (Sindarin-only) root ᴺ√PHES for purposes of Neo-Eldarin. In earlier versions of Eldamo, I used to recommend using the Neo-Root ᴺ√ITITH for both Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin, but I later decided that if ᴱ√FESE and ᴱ√ITI could coexist in the Gnomish and Qenya of the 1910s, then ᴺ√PHES and ᴺ√ITITH can coexist in Neo-Eldarin as language-specific roots: not every word needs to date back to a shared Primitive Elvish root.