Eldamo : Quenya : raita-¹

Q. raita-¹ v. (ta-formative) “to make network or lace; to catch in a net” (Category: to Wind, Wrap)

Q. raita-¹, v. (ta-formative) “to make network or lace; to catch in a net” (Category: to Wind, Wrap)

A verb appearing as rea or raita in notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the end of the 1960s, with glosses “make network or lace” and “catch in a net” as derivatives of the root √RAY “net, knit, contrive network or lace; involve in a network, enlace” (VT42/11). In a draft of this etymology appearing in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, the verb was simply glossed “to net” and the root was glossed “net; knit (contrive a network); catch, involve (in a net)”, while the verb’s present form †rea was marked as archaic beside modern[?] ráya, along with a strong past raine (PE22/159).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use the easier-to-conjugate verb form raita with strong-past raine and (modernized) present raitea, and would assume rea was archaic. Compare its homonym raita- “smile” which has a half-strong past reante “smiled” (PE17/182).

References ✧ PE22/159; VT42/12

Glosses

“make network or lace” ✧ VT42/12 (rea)
“make network or lace; catch in a net” ✧ VT42/12
“to net” ✧ PE22/159

Variations

raita- ✧ PE22/159; PE22/159; VT42/12; VT42/12
rea ✧ VT42/12

ᴺQ. ^quit- “to knit” vs. raita-¹ “to make network or lace; to catch in a net”

Inflections

raine	past; strong-past	✧ PE22/159
†rea	present	✧ PE22/159
ráya	present	✧ PE22/159

Element In

ᴺQ. !raitando “gospel”
ᴺQ. !raito “fisher”
Q. raita rembë “*knit a net” ✧ PE22/159

Cognates

S. raeda- “to catch in a net” ✧ VT42/12

Derivations

< √RAY¹ “net, knit, contrive network or lace; involve in a network, enlace” ✧ PE22/159; VT42/12; VT42/12

Phonetic Developments

√RAY > raita-	[raita-]	✧ PE22/159
√RAY > rea	[raja] > [rea]	✧ VT42/12