Quenya 

nosta

birth, birthday

nosta noun "birth, birthday" (LT1:272; maybe not a valid word in Tolkiens later Quenya because the meaning of the corresponding verb was changed from "give birth" to "beget")

nostarë

noun. birthday

Cognates

Elements

WordGloss
nosta“birth, birthday”
ré“day (period from sunset to sunset)”
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nónië

noun. birth

A neologism for “birth” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), an abstract noun form of Q. nóna “born”. I prefer to adapt the Early Qenya word nosta.

Elements

WordGloss
nóna“born”
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nosta

noun. birth, birthday

Cognates

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
nosta-“to beget, be begotten, to beget, [ᴱQ.] give birth to; [Q.] to be begotten, *be born [impersonal]; [ᴱQ.] to cause”

Sindarin 

oronnad

noun. birthday

Cognates

Elements

WordGloss
aur“(whole) day, (whole) day, sunlight, [N.] morning”
onnad“birth”
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onnad

noun. birth

Cognates

  • ᴺQ. nosta “birth, birthday”

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
onna-“*to birth, give birth to”
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Gnomish

dana nosteg

birthday

Changes

  • dana nosseg → dana nosteg ✧ GL/61

Variations

  • dana nosseg ✧ GL/61 (dana nosseg)

noss

noun. birthday

nosteg

adjective. birth

Element in

nôs

noun. birthday; nature

A word appearing as G. {noss >>} nôs “birthday” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/61), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born” (QL/66). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Grammar it appeared with the gloss “nature” in phrases like nôs mora “good by nature” (GG/10).

Neo-Sindarin: The usual Neo-Sindarin word for “birthday” is ᴺS. oronnad, a combination of aur “day” and [ᴺS.] onnad “birth”. The word has been floating around for long enough that I have no idea where it originated, but I first learned of it from Fiona Jallings’s Sindarin word lists.

Changes

  • noss → nôs “birthday” ✧ GL/61
  • noss → nôs “birthday” ✧ LT2A/Duilin

Cognates

  • Eq. nosta “birth, birthday”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born”

Element in

Variations

  • noss ✧ GL/61; GL/61 (noss); LT2A/Duilin (noss)
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nost

noun. birth; blood, high birth; birthday

A word appearing as G. {nort >>} nost in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with three distinct meanings: “birth”, “blood = high birth” and “birthday”, though the last sense also applied to the word G. {noss >>} nôs (GL/61). It is clearly based on the early root ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born” (QL/66). G. nosteg seems to be an adjectival variant in the phrase dana nosteg “birthday = ✱day of birth” (GL/61)

Neo-Sindarin: The usual Neo-Sindarin word for “birth” is ᴺS. onnad, gerund of the verb onna- “✱to give birth”; I’m not sure who coined this neologism, but it has been in use for some time.

Changes

  • nort → nost ✧ GL/61

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born”

Element in

Variations

  • nort ✧ GL/61 (nort)
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Early Quenya

nosta

noun. birth, birthday

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.

Cognates

  • G. nôs “birthday; nature”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born” ✧ LT1A/Valinor; QL/066

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NŌ > nosta[nostā] > [nosta]✧ QL/066
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