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noa

conception

noa (1) noun "conception" (= idea) (NOWO)

noa

former

noa (2) adj. "former", also adv. (and noun?) "yesterday", shortened from the full phrase noa ré "former day" (VT49:34). In other conceptual phases, Tolkien used noa for "tomorrow" _(VT49:20). _Compare enwa.

noa

thigh

[noa (3) noun "thigh" (VT46:4)]

nöa

noun/adjective. former; yesterday; tomorrow, yesterday; former, *previous; tomorrow

@@@ originally just adjectival “former, previous”, now also used as a noun “yesterday”, shortened from noa ré “previous day”, perhaps by analogy from phrases like ré nó noa “day before last”.

Element in

  • Q. ecuva nin carë sa nöa “I ‘may’ do that tomorrow, I have a chance of doing that [tomorrow]” ✧ VT49/20

Elements

WordGloss
“before (of time); at back (of place), before (of time); at back (of place); [ᴹQ.] yester-; [ᴱQ.] after (of place), behind; after (only of time); than”
-a“adjectival suffix”

Variations

  • noa ✧ VT49/20; VT49/34; VT49/34
Quenya [VT49/20; VT49/34] Group: Eldamo. Published by

conception

(1) (stem nów- as in pl. nówi) noun "conception" (= idea) (NOWO). In an earlier version, later deleted, represented earlier ñó (ngó), glossed "idea, thought" (VT46:6).

ciuca

noun. thigh

thigh

Quenya [PE 19:54 PE 19:107] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

tiuco

thigh

tiuco noun("k") "thigh" (TIW)