Eldamo : Gnomish : nictha-

G. nictha- v. “to rain, hail, snow” (Category: Snow)

⚠️G. nictha-, v. “to rain, hail, snow” (Category: Snow): ᴺS. ^nítha-¹ “to snow, hail, ⚠️rain”; ᴺS. ^uil- “to rain”

An impersonal verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as G. nictha “it is raining, hailing, is snowing” (GL/60), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√NIQI “white” (QL/66) with qt [kʷt] > cth [xθ].

Neo-Sindarin: If updated to Neo-Sindarin, this verb would be ᴺS. nítha- since since k spirantalized and then vocalized before th. However, I would limit its use to “snow, hail”, and for the verb “rain” I’d instead use ᴺS. uil.

References ✧ GL/60

Glosses

“it is raining, hailing, is snowing” ✧ GL/60

Variations

nictha ✧ GL/60

Inflections

nicthi

past

✧ GL/60

Cognates

ᴱQ. niqista- “to snow”

Derivations

< ᴱ√NIQI “white”