samna

wooden post

samna (þ) noun "wooden post" (STAB)

samna

noun. delved hole, pit

Derivations

• ✶sapnā “delved hole, pit” ✧ PE19/086
  • √SAP “*dig” ✧ PE19/086

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶sapnā > samna	[sapnā] > [sabnā] > [samnā] > [samna]	✧ PE19/086

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.)

sauna

wooden post

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

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

ohlon

diphthong

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

ohlon

noun. diphthong