Middle Primitive Elvish
waʒ
root. stain, soil
Derivatives
Element in
- N. Iarwath “Blood-stained” ✧ Ety/YAR
Variations
- VAG ✧ EtyAC/WAƷ
wahsē
noun. stain
Derivations
- ᴹ√WAƷ “stain, soil” ✧ Ety/WAƷ
Derivatives
vag
root. stain, soil
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “stain, soil” with derivatives like ᴹQ. vakse/N. gwass “stain” and ᴹQ. vára/N. gwaur “soiled, dirty” (Ety/WAƷ). Tolkien also gave it an alternate form ᴹ√VAG (EtyAC/WAƷ). The 1930s name N. Iarwath or Iarwaeth “Blood-stained” was based on this root (Ety/WAƷ, YAR; WJ/83). In the 1950s Tolkien change this name to S. Agarwaen (WJ/142), and the second element of this name (S. ✱gwaen) might still be based on ᴹ√WAƷ.