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PHA root. “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)”

PHA root. “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)”

A root having to do with “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” serving as the basis for unglossed √PHAY (> Q. fëa “spirit”) and √PHAN (> Q. fanya “cloud”) in notes from 1957 (NM/237). Elsewhere both √PHAN and √PHAY had more divergent meanings, and so may have been disconnected from this root. However, Tolkien mentioned a primitive noun ✶phā “breath, puff of breath” in notes from 1968 with an extended form fawa (VT47/35), so that the root √PHAW “emit (foul breath)” from 1957 notes may have been related (PE17/181).

Reference ✧ NM/237 ✧ pha “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)”

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