carma (1) noun "tool, weapon" (PE17:114)
Quenya
carma
noun. tool, implement, means, weapon
carma
tool, weapon
carma
helm
carma (2) noun "helm" (helmet) in Carma-cundo ("k") "Helm-guardian" (PM:260). Notice that in PE17:114, Tolkien indicated that he rather wanted carma to mean "tool" or "weapon", leaving the status of carma "helmet" uncertain. Possibly shortened to -car in the names Eldacar (Elfhelm?), Hallacar (Tall-helm?) Cf. also cassa in Etym.
carma
noun. helm
carma
noun. deed
carma
noun. tool, implement, means
carma-cundo
proper name. Helm-guardian
A title of Minalcar as the regent of Gondor (PM/260). This name is a compound of carma “helm” and cundo “guardian”. Elsewhere cundo means “prince” or “lord” (Ety/KUN, PE17/117). This might still apply here, since Minalcar was heir to the throne. Furthermore, the crown of Gondor was originally a helmet (LotR/1043 note #1), so perhaps: Carma-cundo = “Crown Prince”.
carda
deed
carda noun "deed" (PE17:51). Cf. car #3. The word may contain the ending -da (q.v.) denoting the result of the corresponding verbal action.
carda
noun. deed
carda
noun. deed, deed, *action
Quenya noun for a “deed”, a combination of the verb car- “to do” and the verbal suffix -da used for the product of an action (PE17/51; PE22/152), thus literally “✱a thing done” = “✱action”.
Conceptual Development: Perhaps the earliest precursor of this word is ᴱQ. karma “shape, fashion; act, deed” in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s of similar derivation (QL/45). ᴱQ. ká “deed, act, fact” also appeared in that document, derived from a different root ᴱ√KAHA cause” (QL/43). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, the word appeared as ᴹQ. kar (kard-) “deed” in a draft version for the entry of the root ᴹ√KAR “do, make”, but this word was revised to ᴹQ. kar (kard-) “building” when Tolkien decided the root meaning was only “make, build, construct” and not “do” (Ety/KAR), a decision he later reversed. The form karma “deed” also appeared in some later writings, but was rejected (PE22/138).
car
deed
car (card-) (3) ("k")noun "deed" (rewritten >) "building, house" (KAR). Cf. carda.
carmatan
noun. toolsmith
Eldacar
elfhelm
Eldacar masc. name, *"Elfhelm". Compare carma "helmet". (Appendix A)
cassa
helmet
cassa ("k")noun "helmet" (KAS; though spelt cassa also in the Etymologies as printed in LR, VT45:19 indicates that Tolkien's own spelling was kassa). Cf. carma in a later source.
a-
complete
a- (1) prefix occurring in the word Atalante, said to denote "complete". Probably just a prefixed stemvowel; cf. a root like ANÁR, said to be derived from NAR. (TALÁT)
castol
helmet
castol noun "helmet", synonyms tholon (q.v.), sól (q.v), also variant castolo ("k")(PE17:186, 188)
harna
helmet
harna (3) noun "helmet" (VT45:21)
harpa
helmet
harpa noun "helmet" (VT45:21)
sól
helmet
sól, also solma or solos, noun variant words apparently for "helmet", cf. castol, q.v. (PE17:188)
tamma
tool
tamma noun "tool" (PE17:108)
tholon
helmet
tholon noun "helmet", variant of castol (q.v.), though Tolkien might have mistakenly marked it as Quenya instead of Sindarin (PE17:186)
castol(o)
noun. helmet
tamma
noun. tool
A word for “tool”, an instrumental form of the root √TAM “construct” in notes from the late 1960s (PE17/107).
þolon
noun. helmet
A noun meaning either a “tool, weapon” or “tool, implement, means”, an instrumental formation of car- “doing”, hence originally simply a “✱thing for doing/making” (PE17/114; PE22/152).
Neo-Quenya: This word is similar in meaning to tamma “tool” based on √TAM “construct”, but for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would assume carma is a more general term for a mechanism to get something done, so including non-physical things like “means”, as opposed to tamma “tool” which is more specifically a (physical) instrument for constructing something.