Quenya 

cuita-

verb. to live

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”.

Derivations

  • KUY “awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life” ✧ PE22/156

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Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
KUY > kuita[kuita-]✧ PE22/156

Variations

  • kuita ✧ PE22/156
Quenya [PE22/154; PE22/156] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cuina-

verb. to live, be alive

A neologism for the verb “to live, be alive” appearing in ABNW (ABNW) from the early 2000’s based on [ᴹQ.] kuina “alive”. I prefer using attested coita- for this purpose; this verb was published in 2015.

Derivations

  • KUY “awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”
Quenya Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

Sindarin 

cuia-

verb. to live

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).

Derivations

  • KOY “*live, have life, [ᴹ√] live, have life”

Element in

Sindarin [Let/448; LotR/0953; PE17/102] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Noldorin 

cuia-

verb. to live

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake”

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Gnomish

cuitha-

verb. to live, be alive

Element in

  • G. cuithos “life (period of life); living, livelihood” ✧ GL/27

Elements

WordGloss
KOẎO“have life”
-tha“verb suffix”