Early Quenya
nosta
noun. birth, birthday
Cognates
- G. nôs “birthday; nature”
Derivations
- ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born” ✧ LT1A/Valinor; QL/066
Element in
- Eq. malto ísier i nosta – Qarda “*by those from whom this birth was known – less” ✧ PE15/32
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√NŌ > nosta [nostā] > [nosta] ✧ QL/066
puita-
verb. to beget
Derivations
- ᴱ√PU(HU) “generate”
Element in
- Eq. puyando “parent” ✧ PE14/077
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. nosta “birth, birthday” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born” (QL/66).
Neo-Quenya: As the root √NŌ survived in Tolkien’s later writings with very similar meanings, I’d retain ᴺQ. nosta for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but I’d limit its use to “birth”, and for “birthday” I’d use ᴺQ. nostarë.