Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : tyasta-

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] tyasta- v. “to (put to the) test, *verify” (Category: to Try)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] tyasta-, v. “to (put to the) test, *verify” (Category: to Try)

See ᴱQ. tyasta- for discussion.

tyasta- “to (put to the) test, *verify” vs. tyas- “to test, try [out], pick, choose”

Element In

ᴺQ. !tyastaima “testable”
ᴺQ. !tyestima “testable”

Cognates

ᴺS. !tasta- “to (put to the) test, *verify”
ᴺS. !tastaith “test”

Derivations

< ᴺ√TYATH “test, try [out], ⚠️choose, select, taste”

ᴱQ. tyasta- v. “to put to the test” (Category: to Try)

A verb appearing as ᴱQ. tyasta- “put to the test” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√TYASA “taste, try, choose, test, select”, and with a past form tyasante (QL/49).

Neo-Quenya: I think it is worth retaining ᴺQ. tyasta- for purposes of Neo-Quenya as a causative form of the verb ᴺQ. tyas- “test, try [out]”, so originally meaning “*cause to test”. I further assume it has drifted in meaning, evolving into the sense “put to the test, *verify”, as opposed to ᴺQ. tyas- which I take to mean “test/try/pick something to see if it meets your preferences”. As a causative verb, I would assume tyasta- has a weak past form tyastane for better compatibility with later Quenya past formation.

References ✧ QL/49

Glosses

“put to the test” ✧ QL/49

Variations

tyasta- ✧ QL/49

Inflections

tyasante

past

✧ QL/49

Derivations

< ᴱ√TYASA “taste, try, choose, test, select” ✧ QL/49

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TYASA > tyasta-

[tʲasta-]

✧ QL/49