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ᴹQ. easte n. “being, essence” (Category: Be)

⚠️ᴹQ. ëastë, n. “being, essence” (Category: Be)
ᴺQ. ^ëasta “existence, being”
Q. nassë “nature, true-being, *essence; ⚠️person, individual; material”

A word appearing as ᴹQ. easte “being, essence” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948, a combination of ᴹQ. ea- “to be” and the “general action verbal suffix” ᴹQ. -ste (PE22/123). It replaced ᴹQ. yeste “being, existence” which was derived from the (rejected) verb ᴹQ. ye- “be” (PE22/123 note #130).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien used ᴱQ. nasta for “existence, being, creature” under the early root ᴱ√ “be, exist” (QL/64).

Neo-Quenya: In notes from the early 1950s the verbal suffix became -sta (PE22/137), so I would update this noun to ᴺQ. ëasta “existence, being”, using the gloss “existence” instead of “essense” because by the late 1960s, the verb ëa- was used only for statements about the existence of a thing in the real world. For “essense” I would use the later noun nassë “nature, true-being” (PE17/174-175).

Reference ✧ PE22/123 ✧ ëaste “being, essence”

Elements

ea- “to be; to exist, have being, be found extant in the real world” ✧ PE22/122
-ste “general action verbal suffix”

ᴹQ. yeste n. “being, existence” (Category: Be)

See ᴹQ. easte for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE22/123 ✧ “being, existence”

Elements

ye- “to be” ✧ PE22/123 ()
-ste “general action verbal suffix”

ᴱQ. nasta n. “existence, being, creature” (Category: Be)

See ᴹQ. easte for discussion.

References ✧ QL/64, 70, 72

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

#naste suffix ✧ QL/70

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√ > nasta [nastā] > [nasta] ✧ QL/64