A verb for “to live” appearing only in the imperative form cuio in the phrase cuio i Pheriain anann “long live the Halflings” or “may the Halflings live long” (LotR/953; Let/448; PE17/102). It already had this form when it appeared in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (SD/46).
Quenya
cuita-
verb. to live
Derivations
- √KUY “awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life” ✧ PE22/156
Element in
- Q. cuita’r parë “live and learn” ✧ PE22/154
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √KUY > kuita [kuita-] ✧ PE22/156 Variations
- kuita ✧ PE22/156
cuita
verb. live
coita-
verb. live, be alive, have life
oia-
verb. live, pass one’s days
A word appearing as Q. kuita “live” in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, most notably in the phrase kuita’r pare “live and learn”, derived from the root √KUY “live” (PE22/154, 156).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I prefer to use √KUY for “wake” (NM/274) and √KOY for “live”; see those roots for discussion. As such, I would use Q. coita- for “to live” and would assume ᴺQ. cuita- means to “to waken, rouse”, as did its primitive form from the 1950s: ✶kuitā- (PE22/136). I further assume cuita- “to waken, rouse” is a transative/causative verb (taking a direct object) based on the long ā in this primitive form, with a past tense cuitane “woke, roused”.