ᴱQ. nostale n. “species, kind; nature” (Category: Other Collective Words)
A word appearing as ᴱQ. nostale “species, kind” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a noun form of ᴱQ. nosta- “give birth to” (QL/53). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Grammar in the phrase ᴱQ. nostalen mára “good by nature” (GG/10).
Neo-Quenya: Since nosta- still means “to beget” in Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺQ. nostalë “species, kind, *type, sort” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but for “nature” I would use Q. nassë.
References ✧ GG/10; LT1A/Valinor; PE15/32; QL/66
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| nostalen | genitive | “by nature” | ✧ GG/10 |
| nostalen | genitive | “*by nature” | ✧ PE15/32 |
Elements
| nosta- | “to give birth to; to cause” | ✧ LT1A/Valinor; QL/66 |
| #-le | “abstract noun” | ✧ QL/66 (#-le) |
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