‘Hike’
The etymology gives a meaning “to walk vigorously”, and that meaning feels right to me. It could also mean ‘powerwalk’, but that could perhaps be formed like “fast-walk” or similar.
Inspired by amnórie, one could try simple *ampata- for a verb, formed with the intensive prefix or (less likely, as the stop is unvoiced) nasal augmentation of the initial stop, and nouns:
*ampatale/-ve/-re
*ampatwe < ampat-me (cf. norme)
*ampatie (cf. norie)
*ampatasta
*ampatande, ampatiende
*ampatasse
*ampante
Some of these may be suitable for ‘hiking’ as an abstract, general concept or process and others for a particular, concrete ‘hike’.
Other augmented/fortified forms may be possible:
*paita- (cf. maita-) and *paitie (though this could be confused with derivatives of √PAY)
*patta- and *patta, *pattande (confusion with √PATH derivatives should be minimal, but the verbal form looks like a causative)
*panta- (may be confused with panta- v. “to unfurl, spread out, open” from ᴹ√PAT “*open”
I think the Sindarin cognate of *ampata- would be *aphad- < an-pata-, and *aphadra- may be another option.
Tamas Ferencz Jun 11, 2018 (00:11)
Robert Reynolds Jun 11, 2018 (00:16)
James Coish Jun 12, 2018 (19:38)
James Coish Jun 12, 2018 (19:43)
Tamas Ferencz Jun 12, 2018 (20:59)
_*papátu-_doesn't feel good
Robert Reynolds Jun 13, 2018 (02:20)
Silliness aside, in my area it is common to say things like “That was a *hike*!” as in an emphatically long trek, presumably by analogy with traditional nature hikes; “to keep on walking” fits that rather well.
The -u in fifíru- is almost the reverse of an inceptive: something ending rather than starting.