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Quenya
asto
dust
Sindarin
ast
noun. light or heat of sun
ast
noun. light or heat of the sun
Cognates
- Q. árë “sunlight, warmth (especially of the sun); day” ✧ PE17/018
Derivations
- √AS “warmth”
Element in
- S. Asfaloth “Sunlit Foam” ✧ PE17/018
ast
dust
1) ast (pl. aist if there is a pl.), 2) lith (sand, ash) (Names:178)
ast
dust
(pl. aist if there is a pl.)
ast
noun. light or heat of the sun, *warmth
Derivations
- √AS “warmth”
lith
dust
(sand, ash) (Names:178)
Primitive elvish
malu
noun. dust
Changes
malŭ→ smalŭ “dust” ✧ PE21/80Derivations
- √MAL “gold, yellow, gold”
Variations
- malŭ ✧ PE21/80 (
malŭ)
Noldorin
ast
noun. dust
ast
noun. dust
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “dust” derived from the root ᴹ√ÁS-AT (Ety/ÁS-AT).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. asto “dust” ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT
Derivations
- ᴹ√ASAT “*dust” ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT
Element in
- ᴺS. athren “dusty”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√ÁS-AT > ast [asto] > [ast] ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT
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Qenya
asto
noun. dust
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “dust” derived from the root ᴹ√ÁS-AT (Ety/ÁS-AT). It was also mentioned in The Feanorian Alphabet from the late 1930s with the same form and meaning (PE22/21-22), and in the revisions of that document from the 1940s, though there it was replaced with ᴹQ. osto as a name for one of the tengwar (PE22/50). This replacement may only have to do with tengwar names, and doesn’t necessarily invalidate asto “dust”.
Cognates
- N. ast “dust” ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT
Derivations
- ᴹ√ASAT “*dust” ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√ÁS-AT > asto [asto] ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT Variations
- asto ✧ Ety/ÁS-AT; EtyAC/ÁS-AT; PE22/021; PE22/022; PE22/050 (
asto)
mulo
noun. dust, dust, [ᴱQ.] fine powder
A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s glossed “dust”, given as an example of declensions for nouns that in ancient times ended with short -ŭ: mulǔ- (PE21/10-11). It is probably a later iteration of ᴱQ. mul (muld-) “fine powder” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a derivative of the early root ᴱ√MULU “grind (fine)” (QL/63). In notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien gave Q. mulë for “meal” = “✱coarsely ground flour”, so it seems ✱√MUL “grind” either survived or was restored. For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is appropriate to use this word with the earlier sense “fine powder” as well.
Derivations
- √MUL “grind (fine)”
Gnomish
thith
noun. dust
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “dust”, appearing below other forms like G. thisin “parched, withered” (GL/73). The latter is clearly a cognate of ᴱQ. sisin from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon, and hence is derived from the root ᴱ√SISI as it appeared in that document (QL/84), though its Gnomish derivatives make it clear the actual root was ✱ᴱ√ÞISI.
Derivations
- ᴱ√ÞISI “singe, etc.”
Element in
Early Noldorin
lhith
noun. dust
Element in
- En. yrlhith “dustless” ✧ PE13/156
tha-
verb. to make, cause to be
Derivations
- ᴱ✶s’ta- ✧ PE13/153
Element in
- En. -tha “causative suffix” ✧ PE13/153
- En. tha i·’lathros an i bailchir beleg {thain} ✧ PE13/128
Early Primitive Elvish
kar-
verb. to make
Derivations
- ᴱ√KARA “do, make”
Derivatives
- Eq. kara- “to do, make” ✧ PE14/058
Variations
- kar ✧ PE14/058
asto noun "dust" (ÁS-AT). According to VT45:6, asto was the name of tengwa #13 in the pre-classical system presupposed in the Etymologies, but Tolkien would later change the name of this letter to anto (its Quenya value changing from st to nt).