Gnomish
mast
noun. feed, food, nourishment; fodder
Derivations
- ᴱ√M(B)ASA “cook, bake”
Element in
- G. masgar “pasture”
bast
noun. bread
Cognates
- Eq. masta “bread”
Derivations
- ᴱ√M(B)ASA “cook, bake”
Element in
- G. basgorn “loaf (of bread)” ✧ GL/22
- G. inig bast no odog saith “*small bread then great hunger” ✧ GL/51
- G. losbas “ryebread”
A noun appearing as G. mast “feed, food, nourishment; fodder” in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/56). Its etymology is unclear; it might be derived from the early root ᴱ√MATA “eat” or from ᴱ√M(B)ASA “cook, bake”.
Neo-Sindarin: This word can easily be adapted as Neo-Sindarin ᴺS. mast based on ancient √MAT “eat” + noun suffixes ✶-dā or ✶-ta, since d + t or t + t from suffixion resulted in st in Sindarin phonology. I would limit this word to animal feed or fodder, and would use ᴺS. math for “food” in general.