Eldamo : Quenya : not-

Q. not- v. “to count” (Category: Account, Reckoning)

Q. not-, v. “to count, ⚠️[ᴹQ.] reckon” (Category: Account, Reckoning)

A verb for “count” (PE17/63), most notable as an element in the adjective únótima “numberless, countless, (lit.) uncountable” from the phrase yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron “long years numberless as the wings of trees” in the Namárië “poem” (LotR/377). In The Etymologies of the 1930s ᴹQ. not- was glossed “reckon” and was derived from the root ᴹ√NOT “count, reckon” (Ety/NOT).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use the verb not- primarily in the sense “count”, and for “reckon” I would use onot-.

Reference ✧ PE17/63 ✧ “count”

Element In

ᴺQ. !emnotosta “framerate, FPS (frames per second)”
Q. asanótë “*easily counted”
Q. hrainotë “*hard to count”
Q. lanotoitë “innumerable”
Q. #nótië “*counting”
Q. nótima “countable, limited in number (weight and measure); (colloquial) moderate in amount, some, few, several”
Q. #onot- “*to count up, reckon”
Q. únotë(a) “not counted, uncounted”
Q. únótima “numberless, innumerable, countless, difficult/impossible to count” ✧ PE17/63 (únótimë)

Derivations

< √NOT “count, reckon”

ᴹQ. not- v. “to reckon” (Category: Amount, Quantity)

See Q. not- for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/NOT; LR/72

Glosses

“reckon” ✧ Ety/NOT

Variations

not- ✧ Ety/NOT

Inflections

nótina

passive-participle

“counted”

✧ LR/72

Element In

ᴹQ. onot- “to count up” ✧ Ety/NOT
ᴹQ. íre ilqa yéva nótina, hostainiéva, yallume “when all is counted, and all numbered at last” ✧ LR/72

Cognates

N. †nœdia- “to count” ✧ Ety/NOT

Derivations

< ᴹ√NOT “count, reckon” ✧ Ety/NOT

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√NOT > not-

[not-]

✧ Ety/NOT