Eldamo : Quenya : nehta-

Q. nehta- v. “to deprive” (Category: to Take)

Q. nehta-, v. “to deprive” (Category: to Take)

A verb for “deprive” in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957, based on the root √NEK of similar meaning (PE17/163).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. oista- “bereave” under the early root ᴱ√OYO (QL/71). Likely this verb was used in the Old English sense of “bereave” = “deprive of”.

Reference ✧ PE17/167 ✧ “deprive”

Element In

Q. #únehta “*atom”

Derivations

< √NEK² “divide, separate, part; deprive” ✧ PE17/167

Phonetic Developments

√NEK > nehta-

[nekta-] > [nexta-]

✧ PE17/167

ᴱQ. oista- v. “to bereave” (Category: to Take)

See Q. nehta- for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/71 ✧ “bereave”

Derivations

< ᴱ√OYO “*poor” ✧ QL/71

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√OYO > oista-

[ojsta-] > [oista-]

✧ QL/71