Quenya 

maita-

verb. feed

feed

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maita-

to make with art, design, compose

maita- (2) transitive vb. "to make with art, design, compose" _(PE17:163). _Cf. maitar, maitalë.

maita-

verb. to make with art, design, compose

Element in

  • Q. maitalë “the act of doing [artistic] work” ✧ PE17/163
  • Q. maitar “artist; poet”

Elements

WordGloss
MAY“excellent, admirable, beautiful; make [art]; suitable, useful, proper, serviceable; right”
-ta“causative verb suffix”

matya-

verb. to feed

A neologism for “to feed” coin by Damien Bador as a straightforward derivative of the attested primitive verb ✶matyā- of the same meaning (PE22/135). I would distinguish it from ᴺQ. nesta- “to graze, pasture, (give to) feed” used for feeding farm animals, whereas matya- can be used for feeding anyone.

Derivations

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Sindarin 

media-

verb. to feed

A neologism coined by Paul Strack in 2019 specifically for Eldamo, the Sindarin derivative of ✶matyā- “feed” (PE22/135).

Derivations

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Primitive elvish

maita-

verb. to feed

Derivations

  • √MAT “eat” ✧ PE18/095
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matjā-

verb. feed

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matyā-

verb. to feed

Derivations

  • √MAT “eat”

Derivatives

Variations

  • matjā ✧ PE22/135
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Middle Primitive Elvish

maita-

verb. to feed

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MAT “eat” ✧ PE18/046

Variations

  • MAITA- ✧ PE18/046
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Early Quenya

nesta-

verb. to feed

The verb ᴱQ. nesta- “feed” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√NESE “give to feed; feed, pasture; graze” (QL/66). It has past forms nēse and nesse, indicating a close relationship to the verb ᴱQ. nese- “graze, pasture, give to feed, feed” from the same root, which likely would have had the same or similar past-tense forms.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would combine both these early verbs into ᴺQ. nesta- “to graze, pasture, give to feed, feed”, derived from the Neo-Root ᴺ√NES.

Cognates

  • G. nesta- “to put to grass, graze, pasture, feed”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NESE “give to feed; feed, pasture; graze” ✧ QL/066

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NESE > nesta-[nesta-]✧ QL/066
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