Early Quenya
nostale
noun. species, kind; nature
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
nostale
noun. species, kind; nature
A word appearing as ᴱQ. nostale “species, kind” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a noun form of ᴱQ. nosta- “give birth to” (QL/53). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Grammar in the phrase ᴱQ. nostalen mára “good by nature” (GG/10).
Neo-Quenya: Since nosta- still means “to beget” in Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺQ. nostalë “species, kind, ✱type, sort” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but for “nature” I would use Q. nassë.