martya- vb. "destine" (MBARAT)
Quenya
marta-
verb. to chance
martya-
verb. destine
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Qenya
martya-
verb. to destine
Early Primitive Elvish
m(b)ṛtṛ
root. chance
marta- (1) vb. "to chance" or *"happen" (QL:63), cf. mart- "it happens" (impersonal) (LT2:348 read marta-?). Another version assigns transitive meanings to the same verb: "to define, decree, destine" (with the last sense = martya-, q.v.), with a variant umbarta- "in more lofty senses" (PE17:104)