Primitive elvish

kah

root. cause

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

Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Primitive Elvish

kahta

noun. kahta

Early Primitive Elvish [GL/24] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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.

Early Primitive Elvish [QL/043] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

ka-

prefix. cause

Early Quenya [QL/043] Group: Eldamo. Published by