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Gnomish

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√ “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

  • nossnôs “birthday” ✧ GL/61
  • nossnôs “birthday” ✧ LT2A/Duilin

Cognates

  • Eq. nosta “birth, birthday”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ “become, be born”

Element in

Variations

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

noun. rain

Changes

  • nôsnoss ✧ GL/61

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NOSO “*damp, wet”

Variations

  • noss ✧ GL/61
  • noth ✧ GL/61
  • nôs ✧ GL/61 (nôs)

noss

noun. birthday

noth

noun. rain

dana nosteg

birthday

Changes

  • dana nossegdana nosteg ✧ GL/61

Variations

  • dana nosseg ✧ GL/61 (dana nosseg)

uch

noun. rain

A noun for “rain” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from primitive ᴱ✶ukko (GL/74), probably based on the early root ᴱ√UQU “wet” which had derivatives like ᴱQ. ukku “rainbow” (QL/98).

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ukko “rain” ✧ GL/74
    • ᴱ√UQU “wet”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ukko > uch[ukko] > [ukk] > [uxx] > [ux]✧ GL/74