Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : tuista

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] tuista n. “twig, shoot, ⚠️sprout, spray” (Category: Branch)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] tuista, n. “twig, shoot, ⚠️sprout, spray” (Category: Branch): ᴱQ. rista “shoot (sowing), plant, seedling”

See ᴱQ. tuista for discussion.

tuista “twig, shoot, ⚠️sprout, spray” vs. ᴹQ. tuima “sprout, bud”

Derivations

< √TUY “sprout, bud”

ᴱQ. tuista n. “spray, twig, sprout, shoot” (Category: Branch)

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. tuista “spray, twig, sprout, shoot” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TUẎU (QL/96).

Neo-Quenya: Since √TUY “sprout, bud” survives Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺQ. tuista, but only for the senses “twig, shoot” referring to small offshoots from a tree or similar plant. For “sprout” I would use [ᴹQ.] tuima (Ety/TUY).

Reference ✧ QL/96 ✧ “spray, twig, sprout, shoot”

Derivations

< ᴱ√TUẎU “*spring, sprout” ✧ QL/96

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TUẎU > tuista

[tuðʲstā] > [tuðʲsta] > [tujsta] > [tuista]

✧ QL/96