Eldamo : Quenya : sam-

Q. #sam- v. (basic-verb) “to have” (Category: to Have)

Q. #sam-, v. (basic-verb) “to have” (Category: to Have): ᴱQ. milc(i)- “to possess, have, keep”; ᴺQ. !inyenna “have, (lit.) [added] to me”; Q. mai-² “to have, possess”

A verb for “to have” in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959, derived from the root √SAM of the same meaning. It was the opposite of pen- “to lack, have not”.

References ✧ PE17/173

#harya- “to have” versus #sam- “to have”
öa- “to possess, own, keep” vs. #sam- “to have”
pen- “not to have” negative of #sam- “to have”
pen- used as a negative of verb samin ✧ PE17/173

Inflections

samin	aorist 1st-sg	✧ PE17/173
sáme	past	✧ PE17/173

Element In

ᴺQ. !osáma “common, joint, (lit.) together-having”

Derivations

< √SAM¹ “to have” ✧ PE17/173

Phonetic Developments

√SAM > samin

[sam-]

✧ PE17/173