caita-

lie

caita- vb. "lie" (= lie down, not "tell something untrue"), aorist tense "lies" in the sentences sindanóriello caita mornië "out of a grey land darkness lies" (Nam, RGEO:67), caitas lá/palla i sír "it is [lit. lies] (far) beyond the river" (PE17:65); the latter example demonstrates that caita can also be used of a geographical feature that "lies" in a certain place. According to PE17:72 and VT48:12-13, the pa.t. is cainë or cëantë rather than **caitanë. The "Qenya" form kakainen, translated "were lying", may seem to be related (VT27:7, 21)

caita-

verb. to lie (down)

Cognates

• ᴺS. caeda- “to lie; to lay (down)”

Derivations

• ✶kaita- “to lie, be on the ground”
  • √KAY “lie, lie, [ᴹ√] lie down; [ᴱ√] rest, dwell” ✧ PE22/136
• √KAY “lie, lie, [ᴹ√] lie down; [ᴱ√] rest, dwell” ✧ PE17/072; PE22/156

Element in

• Q. ar sindanóriello caita mornië “and out of a grey country darkness lies” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
• Q. ar sindanóriello mornië caita “and from a grey country darkness lies” ✧ RGEO/59
• Q. caitas lá i sír “it is beyond the river” ✧ PE17/065
• Q. caitas palla i sír “it is far beyond the river” ✧ PE17/065
• ᴺQ. oscaita- “to surround, (lit.) around-lie”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√KAY > caita	[kaita-]	✧ PE17/072
√KAY > kaita	[kaita-]	✧ PE22/156

Variations

• kaita ✧ PE22/156
• kait|a ✧ PE22/157

caita-

verb. *to lay (transitive), *to lay (transitive); [ᴱQ.] to place, lie down

@@@ in Tolkien’s later writing is never used intransitively, though it was in ᴱQ. It is possible that it might be used as a transitive/intransitive pair like orta- “to raise” and orta- “to rise”, as it was on PE22/159

Cognates

• ᴺS. caeda- “to lie; to lay (down)”

Derivations

• √KAY “lie, lie, [ᴹ√] lie down; [ᴱ√] rest, dwell”

cainë

lay

cainë "lay", pa.t. of caita- "lie", q.v.

cairë

lay

cairë _("k")_vb. "lay" (pa.t. of "lie") (MC:221; this is "Qenya" - in LotR-style Quenya cainë pa.t. of caita?) An word cairë with no clear definition appears in PE17:101; see cëa, cairë.

lirilla

lay, song

lirilla noun "lay, song" (LT1:258)

kakainen

kakainen

kakainen, see caita-

furu

lie

furu noun "a lie" _(LT2:340, GL:36) _Read perhaps *huru in a LotR-compatible form of Quenya, since Tolkien decided that fu- tended to become hu-.

tindon

lay

tindon pa.t. vb? "lay" (???) (MC:220; this is "Qenya")

glîr

lay

glîr (i **lîr, construct glir) (poem, song), no distinct pl. form except with article (in glîr), coll. pl. glíriath**;

glîr

lay

(i ’lîr, construct glir) (poem, song), no distinct pl. form except with article (in glîr), coll. pl. glíriath;

glaer

long lay

(i ’laer) (narrative poem), no distinct pl. form except with article (in glaer)

khay-

verb. to lie (down)

A verb appearing only as akhaini “lay” in the first draft of the Lament of Akallabêth (SD/312). In later versions of the Lament it was change to the verb yad- “to go”, but since this replacement has a different sense, perhaps khay- remains valid.

This verb is only attested in the form akhaina “lay” and like all the draft verbs is difficult to analyze. Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne analyze its initial element as the 3rd-singular pronominal suffix a- and its final element -ni as a past tense marker (VSH/34, 37), also suggesting it may be derived from the Elvish root √KAY “lie (down)” (AAD/10). This Elvish derivation seems likely to me, but I think the form of the verb may instead be the draft-perfect.

Thorsten Renk suggested (NBA/35) the verb stem may instead be khain-. While he could be right about its use in the draft Adûnaic language, this doesn’t fit the later phonetic rules of Lowdham’s Report, which allow only long diphthongs in Classical Adûnaic (SD/423).

Derivations

• √KAY “lie, lie, [ᴹ√] lie down; [ᴱ√] rest, dwell”

Element in

• Ad. adūn batān akhaini ezendi “West road lay straight” ✧ SD/312

glaer

noun. long lay, narrative poem

Written glær (with ae-ligature) in the Etymologies, rectified here according to VT/45:15