S. #nedia- v. “to count, number” (Category: Account, Reckoning)
A verb for “count, number” implied by compounds like genediad “reckoning” (SD/129) and arnediad “unnumbered” (WJ/28), as well as archaic forms like arnoediad [arnœdiad] (S/192) and pen-noediad “innumerable” (PE17/145). This verb appeared as (archaic) N. nœdia- “count” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√NOT “count, reckon” (Ety/NOT; EtyAC/NOT). Its modern form would be nedia-, since œ became e in Sindarin’s phonetic history.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I assume nod- “count” is archaic and prefer to use nedia- as the modern Sindarin verb for “to count, number”. I use [N.] gonod- for “count up, sum up, reckon” and genedia- for “reckon, *calculate”. However, it is possible that nœdia- is archaic as well, and only gonod- and genedia- should be used as counting verbs.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. {tath- “count”}, but this was deleted and replaced by G. tathna- “number, count, reckon” which itself originally had the [deleted] gloss “make a sign, beckon” (GL/69). In the appendixes to the second book of The Lost Tales, Christopher Tolkien incorrectly gave the verb tathna- as tathra- “number, count” (LT2A/Nínin-Udathriol). These Gnomish verbs were clearly based on the early root ᴱ√TAÞA “count” (QL/90).
References ✧ PE17/145; WJ/28
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| #nediad | gerund | ✧ WJ/28 |
| #noediad | gerund | ✧ PE17/145 |
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N. †nœdia- v. “to count” (Category: Account, Reckoning)
References ✧ Ety/NOT; EtyAC/NOT
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| #nœdiad | gerund | ✧ Ety/NOT |
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| ᴹ√NOT > nœdia | [notja-] > [notia-] > [nœtia-] > [nœdia-] | ✧ Ety/NOT |
G. tathna- v. “to number, count, reckon” (Category: Account, Reckoning)
References ✧ GL/69; LT2A/Nínin-Udathriol
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