[#lenta- vb. "send", attested in the past tense with pronominal suffixes: lentanelyes "you sent him". Changed by Tolkien to #lelta-, q.v. (VT47:22, 21)]
Quenya
menta-
send, cause to go
menta-
verb. to send, cause to go (in a desired direction)
Cognates
- ᴺS. menna- “to send, (lit.) make go”
Derivations
- √MEN “go, move, proceed (in any direction); make for, go towards; have as object, (in)tend; direction, object, point moved toward; region” ✧ PE17/165; VT41/06
Element in
Elements
Word Gloss men- “to go, proceed, move (generally); to come, arrive” -ta “causative verb suffix” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √MEN > menta [menta-] ✧ PE17/165 √men > menta [menta-] ✧ VT41/06 Variations
- menta ✧ PE17/165; VT41/06
menta-
verb. have as object[ive], (in)tend, proceed, make for, go towards
Element in
- Q. omentië “meeting (of pathways), (lit.) coming together of journey-path, meeting or junction of the directions of two people” ✧ PE17/013
Variations
- menta- ✧ PE17/013; PE17/093
lenta-
send
lelta-
send
#lelta- vb. "send", attested in the past tense with pronominal suffixes: leltanelyes "you sent him" (VT47:21)
mentië
passage, journey, direction of travel
mentië noun "passage, journey, direction of travel" (PE17:13); the elements are men- "go, proceed" + tië "path, road". Not to be confused with the gerund of menta- #1.
lango
passage
lango (2) noun "passage", especially across or over an obstacle, also "neck" (PE17:92)
menta- (1) vb. "send, cause to go" (in a desired direction) (VT41:6, VT43:15). A similar-sounding primitive verb mentioned in PE17:93 is said to have past and perfect forms that would produce Quenya *mennë*, eménië, but here Tolkien seems to be discussing a distinct intransitive verb "go" and its Sindarin descendants, and Quenya menta- rather belongs to the causative (transitive) verbs which according to the same source has "weak" past-tense forms (in -në, hence mentanë "sent", and likely ementië** as perfect "has sent").