Q. #calta- v. “to kindle” (Category: to Light, Kindle)
This causative verb meaning “kindle, cause to shine” was based on the root √KAL “light; shine” and had a lengthy history in Tolkien’s Elvish languages. ᴱQ. kalta- “kindle, set light to” first appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√KALA “shine golden” (QL/44), but in The Etymologies of the 1930s ᴹQ. kalta- was only glossed “shine” (Ety/KAL). However in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s kaltā́ was given as an example of causative verbs and glossed “cause to shine, light up, or kindle (lamp etc.)” (PE22/114). In Common Eldarin: Verb Structure from the early 1950s (primitive) kalta- was glossed “cause to shine, kindle” (PE22/156). This verb also appeared in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969 as an element in the adjective Q. lacaltaima “not possible to be kindled”.
Reference ✧ PE22/156 ✧ kalta-
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ᴹQ. kalta- v. (ta-causative) “to (cause to) shine, light up, kindle (lamp etc.)” (Category: to Light, Kindle)
References ✧ Ety/KAL; PE22/114, 117
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| kaltane | past | ✧ PE22/117 |
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| ᴹ√KAL > kalta- | [kalta-] | ✧ Ety/KAL |