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ᴺS. !saegon n. “famine, (great) hunger” (Category: Hunger)

ᴺS. !saegon, n. “famine, (great) hunger” [created by Paul Strack] (Category: Hunger)
See G. saigri for discussion.

Elements

^saeg “hunger”
S. -on² “augmentative suffix”

G. saigri n. “hunger (great), famine” (Category: Hunger)

A noun appearing as G. saigri “hunger (great), famine” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, an abstract noun formation based on G. saig “hungry” (GL/66).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I use ᴺS. saegon for “famine, (great) hunger”, an augmentative form of ᴺS. saeg “hunger”.

Reference ✧ GL/66 ✧ “hunger (great), famine”

Elements

saig “hungry”
#-ri “abstract noun”

Cognates