Qenya
sungwa
noun. drinking-vessel
Cognates
- Ilk. saum “drinking-vessel” ✧ Ety/SUK
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶sukmā > sungwa [sukmā] > [sugmā] > [suŋmā] > [suŋgwā] > [suŋgwa] ✧ Ety/SUK
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sungwa
noun. drinking-vessel
Cognates
- Ilk. saum “drinking-vessel” ✧ Ety/SUK
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶sukmā > sungwa [sukmā] > [sugmā] > [suŋmā] > [suŋgwā] > [suŋgwa] ✧ Ety/SUK
A noun for “drinking-vessel” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶sukmā under the root ᴹ√SUK “drink” (Ety/SUK).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d stick to later Q. yulma “cup, drinking vessel” to avoid dealing with changes to the phonetic rules whereby km > gm > ngw that Tolkien made in the 1950s.