ᴹQ. pusta- v. “to stop, put a stop to, cease” (Category: to Cease)
A verb appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the glosses “to stop, put a stop to, and intr. cease, stop” under the root ᴹ√PUS “stop, halt, pause” (Ety/PUT). Tolkien added another entry ᴹ√PUT where pusta- was glossed “to stop”, but the entry for ᴹ√PUS was not removed.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use pusta- for both transitive and intransitive “stop, cease”, but would assume it was derived from *put+tā- and/or *put+tă-.
References ✧ Ety/PUS
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| ᴹ√PUS > pusta- | [pusta-] | ✧ Ety/PUS |
| ᴹ√PUT > pusta- | [pusta-] | ✧ Ety/PUS |