Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : PHA

√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)”

Derivatives

> ✶phā “breath, puff of breath”
- ⇒ ✶phawa ✧ VT47/35
  - ⇒ ✶phawalōkō “dragon”
    - > Q. föalócë “*breath-dragon” ✧ PE17/181
  - > Q. föa “breath, puff of breath” ✧ VT47/35
    - ⇒ [see above]
- > Q. föa “breath, puff of breath” ✧ VT47/35
  - ⇒ Q. föalócë “*breath-dragon” ✧ PE17/181
> √PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ NM/237
- > ᴺS. !fanu “vapour, steam”
- > ✶phanā “veil, cloud” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
  - > Q. fana “raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
    - ⇒ [see above]
  - > S. fân “(white) cloud; veil, curtain; form or vision of a spiritual being; spirit [embodied]” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
    - ⇒ [see above]
- > ✶phanmā “veil, screen” ✧ PE17/176; PE17/180
  - > Q. fanwa “veil, screen” ✧ PE17/176; PE17/180
    - ⇒ Q. henfanwa “eye-screen, veil upon eyes” ✧ PE17/176
    - ⇒ Q. úfanwëa “not veiled, unveiled” ✧ PE17/176; PE17/180
- > ✶phantā- “to veil, cloak” ✧ PE17/174
  - > Q. fanta- “to veil, cloak, mantle” ✧ PE17/174
    - ⇒ [see above]
  - > S. *fanna- “to veil, cloak” ✧ PE17/174
- > ✶phanyā “*veiled, veiling” ✧ PE17/174
  - > Q. fanya “(white) cloud, white and shining [thing]” ✧ PE17/175
    - ⇒ 4 compounds
  - > S. fain “white, shimmering, shining; white and shining [thing]; dim, dimmed; filmy, fine-woven; (vague) apparition; cloud” ✧ PE17/174
    - ⇒ [see above]
- > Q. fana “raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit” ✧ PE17/26; PE17/179; RGEO/66
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. fantercenya “perspicacious, penetrating of sight or understanding”
  - ⇒ Q. fantercenya “perspicacious, penetrating of sight or understanding” ✧ PE17/176
- > Q. fanta- “to veil, cloak, mantle” ✧ PE17/179; VT43/22
  - ⇒ Q. terfantië “*temptation”
  - ⇒ Q. úfantima “not concealable” ✧ PE17/176
- > Q. fanwë “vapour, steam” ✧ NM/237
- > Q. fanya “(white) cloud, white and shining [thing]” ✧ NM/237; PE17/26; PE17/26; PE17/36; PE17/173; RGEO/66
  - ⇒ 4 compounds
- > S. fain “white, shimmering, shining; white and shining [thing]; dim, dimmed; filmy, fine-woven; (vague) apparition; cloud” ✧ NM/237; PE17/26; PE17/36; PE17/179
  - ⇒ S. Ar-Feiniel “White Lady”
  - ⇒ S. fanui “cloudy, (lit.) having much cloud” ✧ RC/268
    - ⇒ [see above]
  - ⇒ S. Ras-Arphain
- > S. fân “(white) cloud; veil, curtain; form or vision of a spiritual being; spirit [embodied]” ✧ NM/237; PE17/26; PE17/26; PE17/36; RGEO/66
  - ⇒ S. fanui “cloudy, (lit.) having much cloud” ✧ PE17/173; RGEO/66
    - ⇒ [see above]
  - ⇒ S. Fanuilos “Bright (Angelic) Figure upon Uilos” ✧ Let/278; PE17/26; PE17/174; PE17/176; PE17/180; RGEO/66
- > S. fanui “cloudy, (lit.) having much cloud” ✧ PE17/26; PE17/36
  - ⇒ S. Fanuidhol “Cloudyhead” ✧ PE17/26; PE17/36; PE17/173; RC/268; RGEO/66
- ⇒ S. Fanuilos “Bright (Angelic) Figure upon Uilos” ✧ PE17/26
- > S. ?fanwos “mind-picture (of apparition in dream)”
> √PHAW “emit (foul breath), *breath, puff of breath”
- > ᴺS. !faw- “to puff, blow, pant”
  - > ᴺS. !faul¹ “bladder, (orig.) inflated thing”
- > ✶phawa
  - ⇒ ✶phawalōkō “dragon”
    - ⇒ [see above]
  - > Q. föa “breath, puff of breath” ✧ VT47/35
    - ⇒ [see above]
- ⇒ ✶phawalōkō “dragon” ✧ PE17/181
  - > Q. föalócë “*breath-dragon” ✧ PE17/181
- > Q. föa “breath, puff of breath” ✧ PE17/181
  - ⇒ Q. föalócë “*breath-dragon” ✧ PE17/181
- > S. faug “gape”
  - ⇒ S. Anfauglir “Jaws of Thirst” ✧ SA/faug
  - ⇒ S. Anfauglith “Gasping Dust” ✧ SA/faug
  - ⇒ S. Dor-nu-Fauglith “Land under Choking Ash” ✧ SA/faug
- > S. faw “*breath, puff of breath” ✧ PE17/181
> √PHAY “spirit” ✧ NM/237
- > ✶phaini “vapour” ✧ NM/237
  - > S. faen “vapour; [disembodied] spirit” ✧ NM/237
- > ✶phairi “spirit (general)” ✧ NM/237
  - > Q. fairë “spirit (disembodied), phantom; †radiance” ✧ NM/237
    - ⇒ 4 compounds
  - > S. faer “spirit (in general)”
- > ✶phanā “veil, cloud” ✧ NM/237
  - > Q. fana “raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
    - ⇒ ᴺQ. fantercenya “perspicacious, penetrating of sight or understanding”
    - ⇒ Q. fantercenya “perspicacious, penetrating of sight or understanding” ✧ PE17/176
  - > S. fân “(white) cloud; veil, curtain; form or vision of a spiritual being; spirit [embodied]” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
    - ⇒ S. fanui “cloudy, (lit.) having much cloud” ✧ PE17/173; RGEO/66
      - ⇒ S. Fanuidhol “Cloudyhead” ✧ PE17/26; PE17/36; PE17/173; RC/268; RGEO/66
    - ⇒ S. Fanuilos “Bright (Angelic) Figure upon Uilos” ✧ Let/278; PE17/26; PE17/174; PE17/176; PE17/180; RGEO/66
- > ✶phāy “flame, ray of light”
  - > Q. †fá¹ “*ray of light, flame” ✧ PE19/104
- > ✶phayā “soul, indwelling spirit” ✧ NM/237
  - ⇒ ✶Phayanāro “Spirit of Fire” ✧ PE17/39
    - > Q. Fëanáro “Spirit of Fire” ✧ PE17/39
      - ⇒ Q. Fëanoreva Tengwassë “Feanorian Alphabet” ✧ PE22/149
      - > S. Fëanor “Spirit of Fire” ✧ SI/Fëanor
  - > Q. fëa “(indwelling or incarnate) spirit, soul” ✧ MR/349; MR/470; NM/237; PE17/124; PE19/104; VT41/14
    - ⇒ 5 compounds
  - > S. fae “incarnate spirit”
    - ⇒ ᴺS. !faefelf “soul-feeling, *emotion”
    - ⇒ ᴺS. !faergol “depression, grief, (lit.) spirit-burden”
    - ⇒ S. Faenor “Spirit of Fire”
- > Q. faila “fair-minded, just, generous” ✧ PM/352
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !failassë “justice, fair-mindedness”
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !failata- “to justify”
    - ⇒ ᴺQ. !failanta “justified”
    - ⇒ ᴺQ. !failatië “justification”
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !úfailië “unrighteousness”
- > Q. fëa “(indwelling or incarnate) spirit, soul” ✧ PM/352
  - ⇒ 5 compounds
- > S. #fael¹ “gleam of the sun; *gleaming”
  - ⇒ S. Faelivrin “*Gleaming of Ivrin” ✧ S/210
- > S. fael² “fair-minded, just, generous” ✧ PM/352
  - ⇒ ᴺS. !faelas “fairness, equity”
  - ⇒ S. Felagon “*Fair-minded Lord” ✧ PM/352