ᴺQ. [ᴹQ.] suv- v. “to sink (esp. in water)” (Category: to Sink)
Derivations
ᴹQ. #suv- v. (basic-verb) “to sink (esp. in water)” (Category: to Sink)
A verb appearing on a rejected page of verbal roots in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948, given only in its past form ᴹQ. sumbe based on the root ᴹ√SUB “sink, esp. in water” (PE22/127). Presumably its stem form would be *suv- “to sink”.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. suq- “fall, fail, go down, die down” under the early root ᴱ√SUQU (QL/87). Related words had to with the setting sun and stars rather than sinking in water.
Neo-Quenya: I retain ᴺQ. suv- “to sink (especially in water)” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, as similar verbs mostly have to do with descending objects like the setting sun rather than sinking in liquid.
References ✧ PE22/127
Inflections
| sumbe | past | ✧ PE22/127 |
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√SUB > sumbe | [sub-] > [suβ-] > [suv-] | ✧ PE22/127 |