nesse

noun. (green) fodder, herb, grass

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “(green) fodder, herb, grass” under the early root ᴱ√NESE (QL/66). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was glossed “green fodder” (PME/66).

Cognates

• G. ness “water meadow; long grass”

Derivations

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

Element in

• Eq. nessele “pasture, mead; pasturage” ✧ QL/066

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√NESE > nesse	[nessē] > [nesse]	✧ QL/066

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

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√NESE > nesta-	[nesta-]	✧ QL/066