tath

root. fringe

kegyā

noun. hedge

tastë

noun. fringe

not-

verb. to count, to count, [ᴹQ.] reckon

A verb for “count” (PE17/63), most notable as an element in the adjective únótima “numberless, countless, (lit.) uncountable” from the phrase yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron “long years numberless as the wings of trees” in the Namárië “poem” (LotR/377). In The Etymologies of the 1930s ᴹQ. not- was glossed “reckon” and was derived from the root ᴹ√NOT “count, reckon” (Ety/NOT).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use the verb not- primarily in the sense “count”, and for “reckon” I would use onot-.

tussa

bush

tussa noun "bush" (TUS)

cai

hedge

cai (i gai, o chai), pl. cî (i chî);

toss

bush

(low-growing tree) toss (i doss, o thoss, construct tos), pl. tyss (i thyss). Tolkien mentioned ”maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, etc.” as examples of the low-growing trees covered by this word.

cai

noun. hedge

cai

noun. hedge

nod-

verb. to count

An (archaic?) verb for “count” implied by various compounds like pen-nod “without count” and únodui “countless” (PE17/144-145). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien said that “not- count, nut- tie coalesced in Exilic ✱nod-, but ‘count’ was always expressed by gonod- unless some other prefix was added, as in arnediad” (Ety/WŌ). Thus it seems nod “count” survived only an element in compounds, and words like [N.] gonod- “count up, reckon” and nedia- “count” became the usual verbs for counting. According to The Etymologies it seems the basic verb form [N.] nod- meant only “to tie” in the modern form of the language.

Conceptual Development: In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, nod- was mentioned as element in ᴱN. go-nod- “count up” (PE13/162).

cai

hedge

(i gai, o chai), pl. cî (i chî);

caraes

hedge of spikes

(i garaes, o charaes). No distinct pl. form except with article (i charaes).

toss

bush

(i doss, o thoss, construct tos), pl. tyss (i thyss). Tolkien mentioned ”maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, etc.” as examples of the low-growing trees covered by this word.

nod-

verb. to count

nœdia-

verb. to count

toss

noun. bush, low-growing tree (as maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, etc.)