S. #cuina- v. “to be alive” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)
A verb for “to be alive” appearing as a soft-mutated plural in the phrase Dor Firn-i-Guinar (S/188) and as a nasal-mutated plural in Dor Gyrth i Chuinar (nasal-mutation) (Let/417), both meaning “Land of the Dead that Live”. Its Noldorin-style infinitive form cuino “to be alive” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. cuitha- “am alive, live” (GL/27).
References ✧ Let/417; S/188
Inflections
| chuinar | nasal-mutation present plural; c-mutation | “Live” | ✧ Let/417: [the preceding i must be elided from in] |
| Guinar | soft-mutation present plural; c-mutation | “live” | ✧ S/188 |
Element In
Derivations
N. cuina- v. “to be alive” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)
References ✧ Ety/KUY
Inflections
| cuino | infinitive | “to be alive” | ✧ Ety/KUY |
| Guinar | soft-mutation present plural; c-mutation | “live” | ✧ Ety/KUY |
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√KUY > cuino | [kujna-] > [kuina-] | ✧ Ety/KUY |