stab

root. *wood

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. sambe “room, chamber”, N. tham “hall”, and ᴹQ. samna/N. thafn “wooden post” (Ety/STAB). It seems to be a later iteration of the unglossed root ᴱ√SAMA from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. san (samb-) “hall, dwelling house” and ᴱQ. sambe “room, chamber” (QL/81). Its derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon seem to be G. tham “chamber, room” and G. thambros “hall”, pointing at a true root form ✱ᴱ√ÞAMA (GL/72). However, there are other words like G. sam- “arrange, put together, adjust, settle, reconcile” and G. samin “arranged, settled, done” that hint at a root form ᴱ√SAMA but with a different meaning “✱arrange” (GL/67). Looking forward, the later form S. sammath “chambers” in Sammath Naur “Chambers of Fire” (LotR/942) may imply a later shift back to ✱√SAM for this root, but that conflicts with other roots like √SAM “to have”.

Derivatives

• ᴹ✶stabnē “wooden post” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • ᴹQ. samna “wooden post” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • On. sthamne “post, wooden pillar” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • N. thafn “post, wooden pillar” ✧ Ety/STAB
• ᴹ✶stabnō “carpenter, wright, builder” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • Ilk. thavon “carpenter, wright, builder” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • ᴹQ. samno “carpenter, wright, builder” ✧ Ety/STAB
• ᴹ✶stabrō “carpenter, wright, builder” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • On. sthabro “carpenter, wright, builder” ✧ Ety/STAB
• ᴹ✶stambē “room, chamber” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • ᴹQ. sambe “room, chamber” ✧ Ety/STAB
  • N. tham “hall” ✧ Ety/STAB
• ᴹ✶sambē “*chamber”