sabar
From Tolkien Gateway
sabar (or habar)[note 1] is an unattested Sindarin word likely meaning "delved mine", being reconstructed from an element found in the compound names Anghabar and Nornhabar.[1][2]
Note that this word is debatable as it is seen only in these compounds. Didier Willis has suggested that Tolkien perhaps reused the old Qenya root SAPA "dig, excavate"[3] as a base for this word.[1] This seems likely, since SAP- and a derivative sapnā reappear in the 1950s' Outline of Phonology as the source for samna "delved hole, pit".[4]
Notes
- ↑ S usually mutates to H in Sindarin.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Didier Willis, Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary at Jrrvf.com (accessed 17 September 2020)
- ↑ David Salo (2004), A Gateway to Sindarin, p. 327
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 82
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Quenya Phonology", in Parma Eldalamberon XIX (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 86