Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : PHAS

ᴹ√PHAS root. “*tangle, shag, fringe”

ᴹ√PHAS root. “*tangle, shag, fringe”: ?ᴱ√FASA “wash”; ᴹ√PHARAN

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. fasta- “tangle”, ᴹQ. fasse “tangled hair, shaggy lock” and N. fast “shaggy hair” (Ety/PHAS). Possible precursors include ᴱQ. fas/G. fath “tassel” and other related words from the Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons of the 1910s (QL/37; GL/34). No root was given in these early documents, but it may have been *ᴱ√FAÞA.

References ✧ Ety/PHAS; EtyAC/PHARAN

Derivatives

> ᴹQ. farne “foliage” ✧ EtyAC/PHARAN; EtyAC/PHAS
> ᴹQ. fas “fringe, border”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. ^fassalë “(tasseled) fringe”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. ^fassitë “tasseled”
> ᴹQ. fasse “tangled hair, shaggy lock” ✧ Ety/PHAS
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !fassëa “shaggy, tangled [hair]”
> ᴹQ. fasta-¹ “to tangle” ✧ Ety/PHAS
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !alafasta “tidy, orderly”
> ᴺS. fass “tassle”
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^fathol “(tasselled) fringe”
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^fathren “tasselled”
> ON. phasta “shaggy hair” ✧ Ety/PHAS
- > N. fast “shaggy hair” ✧ Ety/PHAS
  - ⇒ N. Ulfast ✧ Ety/PHAS
  - ⇒ ᴺS. !fastui “shaggy, hairy, hirsute”
  - ⇒ S. Ulfast

*ᴱ√FAÞA root. “tassel”

See ᴹ√PHAS for discussion.

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. fas “tassel”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. fatsale “(tasseled) fringe” ✧ QL/37
- ⇒ ᴱQ. fatsevoite “tasseled” ✧ QL/57
> G. fath “tassle”
- ⇒ G. fathli “tasselled fringe” ✧ GL/34
- ⇒ G. fathrin “tasselled” ✧ GL/34
- ⇒ G. fathwed “tasselled” ✧ GL/34