Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : FAPA

?ᴱ√FAPA root.

⚠️?ᴱ√FAPA root.: √MAH “handle, manage, control, wield; ⚠️serve, be of use; [ᴹ√] hand; [ᴱ√] grasp”; √PĀ/APA “touch; after, behind of place”

A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fab- “handle, touch, feel” and G. famp “handling, touching, feeling” (GL/33). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. fab- “to handle, touch, feel”
- ⇒ G. fabli “sense of touch” ✧ GL/33
> G. famp “handling, touching, feeling; stroking, caressing, ‘fuss’; fingering, appraising, assay”
- ⇒ G. famfa- “to maul” ✧ GL/33