Middle Primitive Elvish
sag
root. *bitter, poison
sagmā
noun. poison
sagrā
adjective. bitter
kwentā
noun. tale
maktā-
verb. to fight
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An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. sangwa/N. saew “poison” and ᴹQ. sára/N. saer “bitter” (Ety/SAG). Later poison words were derived from √SLOY, but I think this root is worth retaining in Neo-Eldarin as the basis for “bitter”.