Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : SAH(Y)A

ᴱ√SAH(Y)A root. “be hot”

⚠️ᴱ√SAH(Y)A root. “be hot”: √UR “heat, be hot”

A root given as ᴱ√SAHA or ᴱ√SAHYA and glossed “be hot” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with derivatives like ᴱQ. sá “fire” and ᴱQ. Sahóra “the South” (QL/81). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. sâ “fire” and G. sair “hot” (GL/66). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

References ✧ LT1/248; LT1A/Sári; QL/72, 81

Glosses

“be hot” ✧ LT1/248 (SAHA); QL/81 (SAHA)

Variations

SAHA ✧ LT1/248; LT1A/Sári; QL/81
SAHYA ✧ LT1A/Sári
SAH͡YA ✧ QL/72; QL/81

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶saχ[a] “fire” ✧ QL/81
- ⇒ ᴱ✶saχsōđa “house of fire” ✧ PE12/21; QL/81
  - > ᴱQ. Sahóra “the South” ✧ PE12/18; PE12/18; PE12/21; PE12/21; QL/81
> ᴱQ. sá “fire” ✧ LT1A/Sári; QL/81
- ⇒ ᴱQ. Sainen “Saturday”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. saqila “fire-red, scarlet” ✧ QL/81
- ⇒ ᴱQ. sár(e)a “fiery” ✧ QL/81
> ᴱQ. Sahóra “the South” ✧ LT1/248; LT1A/Sári
> ᴱQ. sahta-¹ “it is hot” ✧ QL/81
> ᴱQ. saiwa “hot” ✧ LT1/248; LT1A/Sári; QL/81
- ⇒ ᴱQ. saiwali “summer” ✧ QL/81
> ᴱQ. saiwa- “?to be hot” ✧ QL/72
> ᴱQ. sanga-² “to scorch” ✧ QL/81
> ᴱQ. sár(e)a “fiery” ✧ LT1/248
> ᴱQ. Sári “Sun” ✧ LT1A/Sári
> ᴱQ. Sáya
> G. sâ “fire” ✧ LT1A/Sári; LT1A/Sári
- ⇒ G. Sacha “the Fire-fey” ✧ GL/66
> G. Sacha “the Fire-fey”
> G. sair “hot”
- ⇒ G. sairin “fiery, fierce” ✧ GL/66
- ⇒ G. saiwen “summer, midsummer” ✧ GL/66
  - ⇒ [see above]
> G. sairin “fiery, fierce” ✧ LT1A/Sári
> G. saiwen “summer, midsummer” ✧ LT1A/Sári
- ⇒ G. Saiwendana “midsummer’s day” ✧ GL/66