Eldamo : Neo-Sindarin : nab-

ᴺS. [G.] nab- v. “to take, lay hold of” (Category: to Take)

ᴺS. [G.] nab-, v. “to take, lay hold of” (Category: to Take): G. tû- “to get, receive, take; to become”

See G. nab- for discussion.

^mab- “to seize, take away by force, *grasp” vs. nab- “to take, lay hold of”

Element In

ᴺS. ^nabas “seizure, *act of taking”

Derivations

< √NAP “take (hold), pick up, grasp, seize quickly (with fingers)”

G. nab- v. “to take, lay hold of” (Category: to Take)

A verb appearing as G. nab- “take, lay hold of” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/59), apparently derived from the early root ᴱ√NAPA which was a variant of ᴱ√MAPA “seize” (QL/59, 64). Its past form nôbi appeared in the untranslated phrase G. nôbi i·mab ’len suila ontha from the contemporaneous Gnomish Grammar, apparently “*he took the slender hand of his daughter” (GG/11).

Neo-Sindarin: Since √NAP appears in Tolkien’s later writings with glosses like “grasp, seize quickly” (VT47/20), “take hold” (VT47/27), and “take, pick up” (VT47/28), I would retain ᴺS. nab- “to take, lay hold of” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.

References ✧ GG/11; GL/59

Glosses

“take, lay hold of” ✧ GL/59

Variations

nab- ✧ GL/59

Inflections

nôbi

past

✧ GG/11; GL/59

Element In

G. nabos “seizure” ✧ GL/59
G. nôbi i·mab ’len suila ontha “*he took the slender hand of his daughter” ✧ GG/11

Cognates

ᴱQ. mapa- “to seize, take; to ravish, seize and carry off forcibly”

Derivations

< ᴱ√NAPA “*seize”