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Early Primitive Elvish

tyasa

root. taste, try, choose, test, select

The root ᴱ√TYASA appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “taste, try, choose, test, select” and derivatives like ᴱQ. tyasa- “test, try, pick, choose” and ᴱQ. tyastava- “to taste (at)” (QL/49). In later writings “taste” words were derived from √KYAW or √KYAB, but I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√TYAS “test, try [out]” to salvage these early “test” words.

Derivatives

  • Eq. tyasa- “to test, try, pick, choose” ✧ QL/049
  • Eq. tyasta- “to put to the test” ✧ QL/049
  • Eq. tyastava- “to taste (at)” ✧ QL/049

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