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Early Quenya

karp-

verb. to pluck

A verb in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s with present form karpe and past form karpie, derived from primitive ᴱ✶kṛp- “to pluck” (PE14/58), clearly related to the early root ᴱ√KᴬRPᴬR [KṚPṚ] from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/45). This verb appeared unglossed with various inflected forms in a document on Qenya Verb Forms, probably from the 1910s (PE14/34). A Qenya form karp- appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, but it is unclear whether this was a verb or just a representation of Qenya derivatives of the root (GL/27).

Cognates

  • G. crib- “to gather, pluck” ✧ GL/27

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶kṛp- > karpie[kṝpie] > [karpie]✧ PE14/058
ᴱ✶kṛp- > karpe[kṛp-] > [karp-]✧ PE14/058

Variations

  • karpi- ✧ PE14/034
Early Quenya [GL/27; PE14/034; PE14/058] Group: Eldamo. Published by

karpi-

verb. to pluck