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S. #cuina- v. “to be alive” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

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 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

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Derivations


N. cuina- v. “to be alive” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

See S. #cuina- for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/KUY

Inflections

cuino infinitive “to be alive” ✧ Ety/KUY
Guinar soft-mutation present plural; c-mutation “live” ✧ Ety/KUY

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Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√KUY > cuino [kujna-] > [kuina-] ✧ Ety/KUY

G. cuitha- v. “to live, be alive” (Category: to Live; Living; Life)

See S. #cuina- for discussion.

References ✧ GL/27

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

cuithi past ✧ GL/27

Elements

ᴱ√KOẎO “have life”
#-tha¹ “verb suffix” ✧ GL/27 (#-tha)

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