Early Quenya
sausa
noun. bath water, hot water
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Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
sausa
noun. bath water, hot water
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. sausa in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bath water, hot water” derived from the early root ᴱ√SOVO or ᴱ√SOW̯O “wash” (QL/86). Very likely the ancient ou became au as was the usual phonetic development in Qenya of the 1910s and 20s.
Neo-Quenya: I retain ᴺ√SOW “wash” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, so I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. súsa “bath water, hot water” using the later sound change of ou to ū. To explain the intervocalic s, I assume the archaic form of this noun was southā; compare G. soth “bath”.