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ᴱ√FOƷO root. “hide, hoard, store up, lay up in secret”

⚠️ᴱ√FOƷO root. “hide, hoard, store up, lay up in secret”
PHAW “breath, puff of breath; blow, emit (foul breath); [ᴹ√] gape”
ᴹ√MUY “*secret”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “hide, hoard, store up, lay up in secret” with derivatives like ᴱQ. foina “hidden, secret” and ᴱQ. foa “hoard, treasure” (QL/38). Gnomish derivatives also appear in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. fuin “secret, dark; hoarded” and G. fuis “hoard”, though there the root was given as foχo (GL/36); this is not a contradiction, since in QL the ancient voiceless spirant χ was represented with H in roots. One of the Qenya derivatives of this root, ᴱQ. foalóke “*hoard dragon” reappeared much later as Q. foalóke with a new etymology where the first element meant “breath” (PE17/181). Thus this early root was likely abandoned.

References ✧ GL/36; LT2A/Foalókë; QL/38

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