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samna

wooden post

samna (þ) noun "wooden post" (STAB)

samna

noun. delved hole, pit

This word had a fairly lengthy history in Tolkien’s writings. The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. sat (sapt-) “pit” under the early root ᴱ√SAPA “dig, excavate” (QL/82). Drafts of the first version of Oilima Markirya had ᴱQ. sapsa or sapta “pit, grave” (PE16/75), appearing in its allative form sapsanta “into the grave” in the final version of the poem (MC/221). The Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s had ᴹQ. sat (sap-) “pit” (PE21/19, 24).

The Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the 1950s had {✶sapmā >>} ✶sapnā > samna “delved hole, pit”, but the section where it appeared was rejected when Tolkien revised the phonetic development of pn (PE19/85-86 note #79). In the new system, the result would once again be Q. ✱sapta, but Tolkien did not include this example in the revised sections.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use ᴺQ. sapta “(delved) hole, pit”, with the additional meaning “grave” from the 1920s, but would assume it was derived from ✱saptā to avoid questions about its phonetic development.

sauna

wooden post

[sauna] (þ) noun "wooden post", changed by Tolkien to samna (VT46:15)

samnar

diphthongs

samnar noun "diphthongs" (sg. #samna "diphthong"?) (SAM; in one text probably dating to late 1930s, Tolkien rejects "osamnar" as the word for "diphthong", introducing the form ocamna to replace it. See VT44:13-14.)

ocamna

diphthong

ocamna ("k")noun "diphthong" (VT44:13)

osamnar

diphthong

osamnar, noun a word for "diphthong" (actually plural "diphthongs", sg. #osamna?) which Tolkien in the late thirties (?) replaced by ocamna, q.v.

ocamnar

noun. diphthongs

diphthongs

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ohlon

diphthong

ohlon (pl. ohloni is attested) noun "diphthong", used of both vocalic diphthongs and "consonantal diphthongs" like mb(VT39:9)

ohlon

noun. diphthong

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