ᴹQ. putta n. “stop (in punctuation)” (Category: Letter of the Alphabet)
The noun ᴹQ. pusta appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the gloss “stop, in punctuation full stop” under the root ᴹ√PUS “stop, halt, pause” (Ety/PUT). Tolkien added another entry ᴹ√PUT with putta “stop (• under letter)”, but the entry for ᴹ√PUS was not removed (EtyAC/PUT). Notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s had {pusta >>} putta for the under-dot tehta (PE22/21 and note #63); an over-dot was called tikse. Later versions of The Feanorian Alphabet had only putta (PE22/49, 63).
Neo-Quenya: In a Google+ conversation, Tamas Ferencz suggested that putta could be reserved only for a stop in punctuation. I would use putta primarily for punctation (commas and periods) rather than tehta, and would use tikse for an over-dot tehta and unutikse for an under-dot. For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use pusta to mean “stop, *halt, pause” given the meaning of its root, but would assume it was derived from *put+tā.
References ✧ Ety/PUS; EtyAC/PUS; PE22/11, 21, 49, 63
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| ᴹ√PUT > putta | [putta] | ✧ Ety/PUS |
ᴹQ. pusta n. “stop, in punctuation full stop” (Category: to Cease)
References ✧ Ety/PUS; EtyAC/PUS; PE22/21
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| ᴹ√PUS > pusta | [pusta] | ✧ Ety/PUS |