Early Quenya
fum-
verb. to sleep
Cognates
- G. hum- “to sleep, drowze”
Derivations
- ᴱ√FUMU “sleep” ✧ QL/039
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√FUMU > fum- [ɸum-] > [fum-] ✧ QL/039 Variations
- hum- ✧ PE14/028
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A verb for “sleep” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√FUMU of the same meaning (QL/39). An unglossed verb hum- on a page of Qenya Verb Forms from the 1910s might be another iteration of this verb (PE14/28).