A neologism coined Shihali in a Discord chat from 2018-04-20 as a transitive verb for “to smoke”, based on ✱usuktā- from the root √USUK which is generally used for “smoke” words in Neo-Eldarin. In the phonetic development from ancient ✱usuktā-, [[os|intervocalic [s] became [h] and then vanished]] as usual, while the diphthong ui arose because of [[s|the vocalization of the spirant [x] to [i] before [θ]]] after the [[os|pair of stops [kt] became spirantal [xθ]]]; compare S. nuitha- < ✶nuktā- (WJ/413).
A neologism coined Shihali in a Discord chat from 2018-04-20 as a transitive verb for “to smoke”, based on ✱usuktā- from the root √USUK which is generally used for “smoke” words in Neo-Eldarin. In the phonetic development from ancient ✱usuktā-, [[os|intervocalic [s] became [h] and then vanished]] as usual, while the diphthong ui arose because of [[s|the vocalization of the spirant [x] to [i] before [θ]]] after the [[os|pair of stops [kt] became spirantal [xθ]]]; compare S. nuitha- < ✶nuktā- (WJ/413).