Early Quenya
saitya-
verb. to starve
Derivations
- ᴱ√SAẎA “hunger” ✧ QL/082
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√SAẎA > saitya [saðʲka-] > [sajkja-] > [saikja-] > [saitja-] ✧ QL/082 ᴱ√SAẎA > saiksine [sajkjne] > [saiksine] ✧ QL/082 Variations
- saitya ✧ QL/082
saikelta-
verb. to starve
Variations
- saikelta ✧ QL/082
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”.