Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : faw-

ᴺS. !faw- v. “to puff, blow, pant” (Category: to Blow)

ᴺS. !faw-, v. “to puff, blow, pant” [created by Paul Strack] (Category: to Blow)

See G. faf- for discussion.

Derivations

< √PHAW “emit (foul breath), *breath, puff of breath”
- < √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)”

Derivatives

> ᴺS. !faul¹ “bladder, (orig.) inflated thing”

G. faf- v. “to puff, blow, pant” (Category: to Blow)

A verb appearing as G. faf- “puff, blow, pant” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/33). It was perhaps related to the early root ᴱ√FAGA that was the basis for ᴱQ. Fâ = Vilna “lowest air” (QL/37), but GL indicated that G. Fâ was based on a different root than G. faf-.

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin I would update this verb to ᴺS. faw- “to puff, blow, pant” based on the later root √PHAW “emit”; compare to S. faw that is cognate to Q. föa “breath, puff of breath” (PE17/181). This neologism faw- could be inflected like caw- “to taste” < √KYAW.

References ✧ GL/33

Glosses

“puff, blow, pant” ✧ GL/33

Variations

faf- ✧ GL/33

Inflections

fofi

past

✧ GL/33

Element In

G. fafli “bladder” ✧ GL/33
G. Famfir “Lord of the Winds” ✧ GL/33

Derivations

< ᴱ√FAGA “*blow”