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Middle Primitive Elvish

now

root. think, form idea, imagine

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s given as ᴹ√NOWO “think, form idea, imagine”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. “conception” and N. nauth “thought” (Ety/NOWO). It replaced deleted roots ᴹ√ÑŌ¹ and ᴹ√NAWA (EtyAC/ÑŌ¹, NOWO). The latter is a strong indication that its original precursor was the root ᴱ√NAVA [NAɃA] “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. nauma “hint, clue” and ᴱQ. nauta- “guess” (QL/64-65), as well as G. naf- “suspect, have inkling of” and G. naus “keen-witted, observant” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/59).

Changes

  • NAWANOWO ✧ Ety/NOWO

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶nauthe “imagination” ✧ Ety/NOWO
    • ᴹQ. nause “imagination” ✧ Ety/NOWO
  • ᴹ✶ñōn- “idea, thought” ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
    • N. ûn “idea, thought” ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
  • ᴺQ. nauya- “to conceive [of an idea]”
  • ᴺQ. nauta- “to conceive”
  • ᴹQ. “conception, idea, thought” ✧ Ety/NOWO; EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
  • ᴹQ. nov- “?to think, form idea, imagine”
  • N. nauth “thought” ✧ Ety/NOWO
  • N. nautha- “to conceive” ✧ Ety/NOWO
  • N. naw “idea” ✧ Ety/NOWO

Variations

  • NOWO ✧ Ety/NOWO
  • ÑŌ¹ ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹ (ÑŌ¹)
  • NAWA ✧ EtyAC/NOWO (NAWA)
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/NOWO; EtyAC/ÑŌ¹; EtyAC/NOWO] Group: Eldamo. Published by