noa (2) adj. "former", also adv. (and noun?) "yesterday", shortened from the full phrase noa ré "former day" (VT49:34). In other conceptual phases, Tolkien used noa for "tomorrow" _(VT49:20). _Compare enwa.
Quenya
noa
conception
noa
former
noa
thigh
[noa (3) noun "thigh" (VT46:4)]
nöa
noun/adjective. former; yesterday; tomorrow, yesterday; former, *previous; tomorrow
@@@ originally just adjectival “former, previous”, now also used as a noun “yesterday”, shortened from noa ré “previous day”, perhaps by analogy from phrases like ré nó noa “day before last”.
Element in
- Q. ecuva nin carë sa nöa “I ‘may’ do that tomorrow, I have a chance of doing that [tomorrow]” ✧ VT49/20
Elements
Word Gloss nó “before (of time); at back (of place), before (of time); at back (of place); [ᴹQ.] yester-; [ᴱQ.] after (of place), behind; after (only of time); than” -a “adjectival suffix” Variations
- noa ✧ VT49/20; VT49/34; VT49/34
nó
conception
nó (1) (stem nów- as in pl. nówi) noun "conception" (= idea) (NOWO). In an earlier version, later deleted, nó represented earlier ñó (ngó), glossed "idea, thought" (VT46:6).
ciuca
noun. thigh
thigh
tiuco
thigh
tiuco noun("k") "thigh" (TIW)
noa (1) noun "conception" (= idea) (NOWO)