Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : NOW

ᴹ√NOW root. “think, form idea, imagine”

ᴹ√NOW root. “think, form idea, imagine”

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s given as ᴹ√NOWO “think, form idea, imagine”, with derivatives like ᴹQ. nó “conception” and N. nauth “thought” (Ety/NOWO). It replaced deleted roots ᴹ√ÑŌ¹ and ᴹ√NAWA (EtyAC/ÑŌ¹, NOWO). The latter is a strong indication that its original precursor was the root ᴱ√NAVA [NAɃA] “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. nauma “hint, clue” and ᴱQ. nauta- “guess” (QL/64-65), as well as G. naf- “suspect, have inkling of” and G. naus “keen-witted, observant” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/59).

References ✧ Ety/NOWO; EtyAC/ÑŌ¹, NOWO

Glosses

“think, form idea, imagine” ✧ Ety/NOWO (NOWO)

Variations

NOWO ✧ Ety/NOWO
ÑŌ¹ ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
NAWA ✧ EtyAC/NOWO

ᴱ√NAVA “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” might have shifted to NOW “think, form idea, imagine”

Changes

NAWA >> NOWO “think, form idea, imagine” ✧ EtyAC/NOWO

Derivatives

> ᴹ✶nauthe “imagination” ✧ Ety/NOWO
- > ᴹQ. nause “imagination” ✧ Ety/NOWO
> ᴹ✶ñōn- “idea, thought” ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
- > N. ûn³ “idea, thought” ✧ EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
> ᴹQ. nó² “conception, idea, thought” ✧ Ety/NOWO; EtyAC/ÑŌ¹
> ᴹQ. nov- “?to think, form idea, imagine”
> N. nauth “thought” ✧ Ety/NOWO
> N. nautha- “to conceive” ✧ Ety/NOWO
> N. naw “idea” ✧ Ety/NOWO
> ᴺQ. !nauta-² “to conceive”
> ᴺQ. !nauya- “to conceive [of an idea]”

ᴱ√NAVA root. “suspect, guess, have an inkling of”

See ᴹ√NOW for discussion.

References ✧ GL/59; QL/64

Glosses

“suspect, guess, have an inkling of” ✧ QL/64

Variations

NAVA ✧ QL/64
naf- ✧ GL/59

NAVA “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” might have reemerged as √NDAB² “to judge”
NAVA “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” might have shifted to ᴹ√NOW “think, form idea, imagine”
ᴱQ. nauto [was, per editors, an apparent noun written above and possibly related to] NAVA “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” ✧ QL/64
ᴱQ. nawa- [was, per editors, an apparent verb written above and possibly related to] NAVA “suspect, guess, have an inkling of” ✧ QL/64
G. naus “keen-witted, observant; notice” ‽to naf- ✧ GL/59

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. nauma “hint, clue” ✧ QL/65
> ᴱQ. naus “suspicion” ✧ QL/64
- ⇒ ᴱQ. naustavilte “free from suspicion, *innocent” ✧ QL/65
> ᴱQ. nauta- “to guess” ✧ QL/65
> ᴱQ. náve “shrewdness, sagacity, perspicacity” ✧ QL/64
> ᴱQ. navillo “whisper, hint, suspicion, rumour, malicious comment, innuendo” ✧ QL/65
> G. naf- “to suspect, have inkling of”
- ⇒ G. nafa “suspicion, inkling” ✧ GL/59
- ⇒ G. nafol “suspicious (subjective)” ✧ GL/59
> G. nafra- “to nose about in others’ business”
> G. naus “keen-witted, observant; notice” ✧ GL/59
> G. nautha- “to hint at, give a hint to”