G. nost n. “birth; blood, high birth; birthday” (Category: to Bear (of Mother))
A word appearing as G. {nort >>} nost in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with three distinct meanings: “birth”, “blood = high birth” and “birthday”, though the last sense also applied to the word G. {noss >>} nôs (GL/61). It is clearly based on the early root ᴱ√NŌ “become, be born” (QL/66). G. nosteg seems to be an adjectival variant in the phrase dana nosteg “birthday = *day of birth” (GL/61)
Neo-Sindarin: The usual Neo-Sindarin word for “birth” is ᴺS. onnad, gerund of the verb onna- “*to give birth”; I’m not sure who coined this neologism, but it has been in use for some time.
References ✧ GL/61; LT2A/Duilin
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