Quenya 

casta

cause

casta (2) noun "cause" (reason) (QL:43)

tyar-

cause

tyar- vb. "cause" (KYAR)

tyar-

verb. cause

Quenya [PE 22:154] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

Primitive elvish

kah

root. cause

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. cahta “cause, motive, reason”
  • ᴺQ. cáma “guilt, responsibility”
  • ᴺS. caeth “cause, reason, motive”
  • ᴺS. caetha- “to make to do or be, cause, compel, induce, bring about”

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Early Primitive Elvish

kaha

root. cause

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “cause” with derivatives like ᴱQ. ka- “cause”, ᴱQ. káma “guilt, responsibility”, and ᴱQ. kasta “cause, motive, ultimate reason” (QL/43). There are similar derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, such as G. caith “cause, reason, motive” < ᴱ✶kahta (GL/24). Some of these words have no good replacements in Tolkien’s later writing, so I think it is worthwhile to postulate a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KAH to salvage some of these early words.

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶kahta
    • G. caith “cause, reason, motive” ✧ GL/24
  • Eq. kasta “cause, motive, ultimate reason” ✧ QL/043
  • Eq. káma “guilt, responsibility” ✧ QL/043
  • Eq. ka- “cause” ✧ QL/043
  • Eq. ká “deed, act, fact” ✧ QL/043
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/043] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

ka-

prefix. cause

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KAHA “cause” ✧ QL/043

Element in

  • Eq. kamanta- “to make eat, give to eat” ✧ QL/043
  • Eq. kasóro- “to make sit, set” ✧ QL/043

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√KAHA > ka-[ka-]✧ QL/043
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