ᴹQ. easte n. “being, essence” (Category: Be)
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√NĀ “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)
Reference ✧ PE22/123 ✧ “being, existence”
Elements
| ye- | “to be” | ✧ PE22/123 (yē) |
| -ste | “general action verbal suffix” |
ᴱQ. nasta n. “existence, being, creature” (Category: Be)
References ✧ QL/64, 70, 72
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| #naste | suffix | ✧ QL/70 |
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√NĀ > nasta | [nastā] > [nasta] | ✧ QL/64 |