Qenya
pis-
verb. to spit
Derivations
- ᴹ√PITH “spit” ✧ PE22/103
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√PITH > pithe > pise [pitʰe] > [piθe] > [pise] ✧ PE22/103 ᴹ√PITH > pitte [pintʰe] > [pittʰe] > [pitte] ✧ PE22/103
piuta-
verb. to spit
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ√PIW “spit” ✧ Ety/PIW
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√PIW > piuta [piuta-] ✧ Ety/PIW Variations
- piuta ✧ Ety/PIW
An apparent verb in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√PIW “spit” and so probably of the same meaning (Ety/PIW).
Conceptual Development: The earliest verb for “spit” was ᴱQ. retye- from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√RET͡YE (QL/79). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s Tolkien had ᴱQ. piste “spit” from primitive ᴱ✶pṣt- (PE14/58), a verb that also appeared in the contemporaneous Early Noldorin Dictionary as a cognate of ᴱN. hist- “spit” (PE13/163). The next “spit” verb was ᴹQ. piuta- in The Etymologies of the 1930s (see above), and in the 1948 Quenya Verbal System Tolkien had ᴹQ. pise from the root ᴹ√PITH “spit” (PE22/103).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I prefer 1930s ᴹQ. piuta- “spit”, in part because it is better known that 1948 pith- but also because it has a Noldorin cognate N. puia- and is thus part of a more complete paradigm.