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).
Gnomish
nôs
noun. birthday; nature
Changes
noss→ nôs “birthday” ✧ GL/61noss→ nôs “birthday” ✧ LT2A/DuilinCognates
- Eq. nosta “birth, birthday”
Derivations
- ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born”
Element in
- G. ged nôsa u “kinsman” ✧ GL/61
- G. gwanos “family, birth, heredity” ✧ GL/44
- G. nosied “kinsman”
- G. nosi mora “good by nature” ✧ GG/10
- G. nôs mora “good by nature” ✧ GG/10
Variations
- noss ✧ GL/61; GL/61 (
noss); LT2A/Duilin (noss)
noss
noun. rain
Changes
nôs→ noss ✧ GL/61Derivations
- 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 nosseg→ dana nosteg ✧ GL/61Variations
- dana nosseg ✧ GL/61 (
dana nosseg)
uch
noun. rain
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶ukko > uch [ukko] > [ukk] > [uxx] > [ux] ✧ GL/74
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.