Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : NOSO

ᴱ√NOSO root. “*damp, wet”

⚠️ᴱ√NOSO root. “*damp, wet”: ᴹ√MIS² “*wet”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants ᴱ√NOSO and ᴱ√NOTO, as well derivatives like ᴱQ. nos (noss- or nots-) “wetness, damp” and ᴱQ. note “drizzle” (QL/67-68). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon like G. nosc or noth “damp, wet” (GL/61), and deleted forms like G. doth (nd-) “drizzle, damp; moisture” were probably based on the strengthened form of this root (GL/30). There seems to be a last example of this root in ᴱN. nûd “wet” vs. ᴱQ. nōtē in the Early Noldorin Grammar from the 1920s (PE13/122), but there are no signs of this root having this meaning thereafter. It was likely displaced by √NOT “count”.

References ✧ QL/67

Variations

NOSO ✧ QL/67
NOTO ✧ QL/67

Derivatives

> ᴱN. nûd “wet”
> ᴱQ. nos “wetness, damp” ✧ QL/67
> ᴱQ. noswa “damp (of weather)” ✧ QL/68
> ᴱQ. noswe “a wet wind (SW)” ✧ QL/67
> ᴱQ. note “drizzle” ✧ QL/68
- ⇒ ᴱQ. notsiva “drizzling” ✧ QL/68
> ᴱQ. nóte “dew” ✧ QL/67
> ᴱQ. notso “damp” ✧ QL/67
> G. doth “drizzle, damp, moisture”
- ⇒ G. dothli “drizzle” ✧ GL/30
> G. nosc “damp, wet”
> G. noss¹ “rain”