Eldamo : Early Quenya : sampe

ᴱQ. sampe n. “cave, hollow” (Category: Cave)

⚠️ᴱQ. sampë, n. “cave, hollow” (Category: Cave): Q. rotto “tunnel, small grot, [ᴹQ.] cave”; Q. unquë “hollow, [ᴹQ.] cavity, hole”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “cave, hollow” with variants sampe and sampo derived from the root ᴱ√SAPA “dig, excavate” (QL/82), both variants also appearing in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “cave” (PME/82).

References ✧ PME/82; QL/82

Glosses

“cave” ✧ PME/82; PME/82 (sampo-)
“cave, hollow” ✧ QL/82; QL/82 (sampo)

Variations

sampe- ✧ PME/82; QL/82
sampo- ✧ PME/82; QL/82

Inflections

sampe-	stem	✧ QL/82
sampo-	stem	✧ QL/82

Element In

ᴱQ. asampe(a) “cavernous”

Derivations

< ᴱ√SAPA “dig, excavate” ✧ QL/82

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√SAPA > sampe

[sampē] > [sampe]

✧ QL/82