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Gnomish

hunt

noun. nose, nostrils, snout

The noun G. hunt “nostrils, nose, snout” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, where Tolkien said it was “properly [an] old dual” (GL/50). In The Gnomish Grammar Tolkien gave it the gloss “the nose (originally nostrils)”, and specified that it was based on an old dual suffix -nt. It may have been derived from some variant of the early root ᴱ√SUHYU “breath, exhale, puff”, and may be related to ᴱQ. súma “nostril” (QL/86).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would adapt this as ᴺS. sunt “(pair of) nostrils” from the later root √ “blow” as a now-obscure fossilized dual of ✱sūm(ă) (?“blow-thing”) combined with the ancient dual suffix ✶-t, where sūm-t(ă) > sunt. A single nostril would be sunneg with the singular suffix -eg. Sindarin has a similar fossilized dual form: lhaw “(pair of) ears” vs. lheweg “ear”.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SUHYU “air, breath, exhale, puff”
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raust

noun. hunt, chase

Cognates

  • Eq. rauste “hunting, preying, the hunt” ✧ LT1A/Meássë

Derivations

  • ᴱ√RAVA “*hunt” ✧ LT1A/Meássë

Element in

  • G. rausta- “to hunt, chase, pursue (only in actual sense of following game)” ✧ GL/65; LT1A/Meássë

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√RAVA > raust[raβste] > [ravste] > [ravst] > [raust]✧ LT1A/Meássë
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rausta-

verb. to hunt, chase, pursue (only in actual sense of following game)

A word appearing as G. rausta- the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “to hunt, chase, pursue (only in actual sense of following game)”, a verb form of G. raust “hunt, chase” (GL/65). Tolkien also had G. rautha- “hunt, chase, pursue” on the same page.

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would adapt these verbs as ᴺS. ruida- “to pursue, chase” based on the later root ᴹ√ROY “chase” and cognate to ᴹQ. roita- of similar meaning, but removing the sense “hunt” and its connection to game animals to make it more distinct from [N.] fara- “to hunt”. I’ve seen this Sindarin neologism proposed in several places, but I’m not sure who first coined it.

Cognates

  • Eq. rauta- “to chase, hunt, pursue; to extirpate, exterminate; to steal” ✧ LT1A/Meássë

Variations

  • rausta ✧ LT1A/Meássë
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rautha-

verb. hunt, chase, pursue