Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : quas-

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quas- [þ] v. “to shake, flap, nod, ⚠️rustle” (Category: to Shake)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] quas- [þ], v. “to shake, flap, nod, ⚠️rustle” (Category: to Shake): ᴺQ. !alapálima “unshakable”; ᴱQ. pal- “to shake”; ᴱQ. quapta-² “to flap”

See ᴱQ. qasa- for discussion.

Element In

ᴺQ. !cemenquasië “earthquake”

Derivations

< ᴺ√KWATH “*shake”

ᴱQ. qasa- v. “to shake, flap, nod, rustle” (Category: to Shake)

A verb appearing as ᴱQ. qasa- “shake, flap, nod, rustle” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QASA (QL/76). Tolkien gave it the past form qasse after which he marked “(intr.)”. This perhaps indicates there was a distinct transitive past (not given), or that the entire verb was intransitive.

Neo-Quenya: I retain ᴺQ. quas- “to shake, flap, nod” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but assume it is based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWATH so that it retains the same modern form. Its classical form would be quaþ-. For “rustle” I would instead use [ᴱQ.] hyasta-.

References ✧ QL/76

Glosses

“shake, flap, nod, rustle” ✧ QL/76

Variations

qasa- ✧ QL/76

Inflections

qasse

past

✧ QL/76

Cognates

G. cwas- “to shake, wag, nod, flap”

Derivations

< ᴱ√QASA “*shake” ✧ QL/76

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√QASA > qasa-

[kʷasa-]

✧ QL/76