Middle Primitive Elvish
now
root. think, form idea, imagine
Changes
NAWA→ NOWO ✧ Ety/NOWODerivatives
- ᴹ✶nauthe “imagination” ✧ Ety/NOWO
- ᴹQ. nause “imagination” ✧ Ety/NOWO
- ᴹ✶
ñōn-“idea, thought” ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
- N.
ûn“idea, thought” ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹- ᴺQ. nauya- “to conceive [of an idea]”
- ᴺQ. nauta- “to conceive”
- ᴹQ. nó “conception, idea, thought” ✧ Ety/NOWO; EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
- ᴹQ. nov- “?to think, form idea, imagine”
- N. nauth “thought” ✧ Ety/NOWO
- N. nautha- “to conceive” ✧ Ety/NOWO
- N. naw “idea” ✧ Ety/NOWO
Variations
- NOWO ✧ Ety/NOWO
- ÑŌ¹ ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹ (
ÑŌ¹)- NAWA ✧ EtyAC/NOWO (
NAWA)
si
root. this, here, now
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹQ. símen “here”
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s given as ᴹ√NOWO “think, form idea, imagine”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. nó “conception” and N. nauth “thought” (Ety/NOWO). It replaced deleted roots ᴹ√ÑŌ¹ and ᴹ√NAWA (EtyAC/ÑŌ¹, NOWO). The latter is a strong indication that its original precursor was the root ᴱ√NAVA [NAɃA] “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. nauma “hint, clue” and ᴱQ. nauta- “guess” (QL/64-65), as well as G. naf- “suspect, have inkling of” and G. naus “keen-witted, observant” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/59).