Early Quenya
pukta-
verb. *to copulate
Derivations
- ᴱ√PU(HU) “generate” ✧ QL/075
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√PU(HU) > pukta- [puxta-] > [pukta-] ✧ QL/075
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A verb appearing as ᴱQ. pukta- in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√PU(HU) “generate” (QL/75). According to the editors, it was written over an erased word whose glosses seems to have been “coire”, which is Latin for “to copulate”; elsewhere derivatives of this root had to do sex and sexual organs.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. puhta- “to copulate, have sex” as suggested by Fiona Jallings, with the later Quenya sound change of kt to ht.