Middle Primitive Elvish
nas
root. point, sharp end
Derivatives
Element in
eʒ-
verb. to be
Derivations
- ᴹ√EƷ “be”
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. ea- “to be; to exist, have being, be found extant in the real world” ✧ PE22/122; PE22/122; PE22/122; PE22/122
Variations
- eʒe ✧ PE22/122
- eñe ✧ PE22/122
yē
root. to be
Changes
- YE → Ē “to be” ✧ PE22/122
Derivatives
Variations
- Ī ✧ EtyAC/YĒ
- I ✧ PE18/060
- YE ✧ PE18/084 (
YE); PE22/123 (YE)
ē
root. to be
ī
root. to be
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “point, sharp end”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. nasse “thorn, spike”, N. nass “point, (sharp) end; angle, corner” and ᴹQ. nasta-/N. nasta- “to prick” (Ety/NAS). It also had an s-prefixed variant ᴹ√SNAS or ᴹ√SNAT whose most notable derivative was N. naith “gore” (Ety/SNAS). Tolkien used the name S. Naith for the wedge of land in Lórien between the rivers Celebrant and Anduin in The Lord of the Rings (LotR/347).
The derivation of N. naith from ᴹ√SNAS/SNAT is unclear, however, and later on Tolkien gave a new etymlogy of this word from the root √NEK “narrow” (PE17/55; UT/282). This may mean Tolkien abandoned ᴹ√(S)NAS, but I think it is worth retaining ᴹ√NAS for purposes of Neo-Eldarin for words like nasta- “to prick”.