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Q. carda n. “deed” (Category: Action)

Q. carda, n. “deed, *action” (Category: Action)
ᴺQ. !car “act, an action”

Quenya noun for a “deed”, a combination of the verb car- “to do” and the verbal suffix -da used for the product of an action (PE17/51; PE22/152), thus literally “*a thing done” = “*action”.

Conceptual Development: Perhaps the earliest precursor of this word is ᴱQ. karma “shape, fashion; act, deed” in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s of similar derivation (QL/45). ᴱQ. “deed, act, fact” also appeared in that document, derived from a different root ᴱ√KAHA cause” (QL/43). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, the word appeared as ᴹQ. kar (kard-) “deed” in a draft version for the entry of the root ᴹ√KAR “do, make”, but this word was revised to ᴹQ. kar (kard-) “building” when Tolkien decided the root meaning was only “make, build, construct” and not “do” (Ety/KAR), a decision he later reversed. The form karma “deed” also appeared in some later writings, but was rejected (PE22/138).

References ✧ PE17/51; PE22/138, 152

Glosses

Variations

Elements

car- “to do, make” ✧ PE22/152 (kar-)
-da “product of an action”
-dā “product of an action” ✧ PE17/51

Cognates


ᴹQ. kar² (kard-) n. “deed” (Category: Action)

See Q. carda for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/KAR

Glosses

Variations

Changes

Inflections

kard- stem ✧ Ety/KAR

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√KAR > kar [kard] > [kar] ✧ Ety/KAR

ᴱQ. n. “deed, act, fact” (Category: Action)

See Q. carda for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/43 ✧ “deed, act, fact”

Element In

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

‽ᴱ√KAHA > [kax] > [kaɣ] > [kā] ✧ QL/43

ᴱQ. karma n. “shape, fashion; act, deed” (Category: Action)

See Q. carda for discussion.

References ✧ PE15/32; QL/45, 97

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

karmar plural “*deeds” ✧ PE15/32

Element In

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√KARA > karma [karmā] > [karma] ✧ QL/45