Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : FASA

?ᴱ√FASA root. “wash”

⚠️?ᴱ√FASA root. “wash”: ᴹ√POY “*clean”; ^ᴺ√SOW “wash, *bathe”; ᴹ√PHAS “*tangle, shag, fringe”

A hypothetical early root to explain words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. fas- “wash” and G. fôs “bath” (GL/34). It seems to have at least one Qenya derivative as well in the 1910s-name: ᴱQ. Faskala-númen “Bath of the Setting Sun” (LT1/187). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. faskalan “bath”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. Faskala-númen “Bath of the Setting Sun” ✧ LT1A/Faskala-númen; LT2I/Faskalan
> G. fas- “to wash”
> G. fasc “clean”
> G. fasca- “to splash, sprinkle”
> G. fast¹ “wash, cleaning”
> G. fôs “bath”
- ⇒ G. Fôs’Almir “Bath of Flame” ✧ GL/36; LT2A/Fôs’Almir
- ⇒ G. Fôs Aura “Sun’s Bath” ✧ GL/36; LT2A/Fôs’Almir
- ⇒ G. Fôs na Ngalmir “Sun’s Bath” ✧ GL/36; LT2A/Fôs’Almir