saike

noun. hunger

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. saike (saiki-) “hunger” in the Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√SAẎA (QL/82). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, the Qenya word for “hunger” was instead saiste (PE13/147).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would retain the noun ᴺQ. saicë “hunger” based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√SAYAK, but only as an archaic word so I could justify the retention of various famine-related words like ᴺQ. saicelë. For normal speech I would assume ᴺQ. maitië is the ordinary word for “hunger”, a noun form of the adjective Q. maita “hungry” from around 1960.

saikele

noun. famine

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. saikele “famine” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. saike “hunger” (QL/82).

Neo-Quenya: I retain ᴺQ. saicelë “famine” for purposes of Neo-Quenya as an elaboration of (archaic) ᴺQ. †saicë.

saikelea

adjective. famished

A word appearing as ᴱQ. saikelea “famished” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjective form of ᴱQ. saikele “famine” (QL/82).

Neo-Quenya: I retain this word as ᴺQ. saicelëa for purposes of Neo-Quenya.

saikelta-

verb. to starve

saiste

noun. hunger

saitya-

verb. to starve

A verb appearing as ᴱQ. saitya- “to starve” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s based on the early root ᴱ√SAẎA “hunger” which was mostly used in combination with -kǝ (QL/82). Its ancient form is probably ✱saikya- with ky > ty (PE12/22). Tolkien said this verb was transitive as in “to starve [someone]”, but could be used impersonally to mean “I starve”. Tolkien also gave a variant form saikelta-, apparently a combination of ᴱQ. saike “hunger” with the verb suffix ᴱQ. -lta.

Neo-Quenya: I retain this verb as ᴺQ. saitya- for purposes of Neo-Quenya. Its impersonal use would be saitya ni “[it] starves me” = “I starve”.