calta-

shine

calta- ("k")vb. "shine" (KAL)

calta-

verb. to kindle, to kindle, [ᴹQ.] (cause to) shine, light up, [ᴱQ.] set light to

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 (QVS) from 1948 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”.

calta

noun. picture, photography

A neologism for “picture, photography” appearing in ABNW (ABNW) from the early 2000s, a blending of √KAT “shape” and √KAL “light”. I think it is better to use attested emma “✱picture, image” which was published after the neologism was coined.

calliérë

shone

calliérë pa.t. vb. "shone" _("k")_(MC:220; this is "Qenya" - in LotR-style Quenya *callë, *caltanë.)

caltáriel

feminine name. woman crowned with glory, radiance

A rejected Quenya name for Galadriel (PE17/50). See ✶Ñ(g)alatā-rigelle for further discussion.

accal(a)-

verb. shine

shine (suddenly and) brilliantly, blaze

cal-

shine

#cal- vb. "shine", future tense caluva ("k") "shall shine" _(UT:22 cf. 51). Compare also early "Qenya" cala- ("k")"shine" (LT1:254)_. It is possible that the verbal stem should have a final -a in later Quenya as well, since this vowel would not appear in the future tense caluva (compare valuvar as the pl. future tense of vala-, WJ:404).

emma

picture

emma noun *"picture" (compounded in indemmar "mind-pictures") (PE17:179)

sil-

shine

sil- vb. "shine" (white), present tense síla "shines, is shining" (FG); aorist silë, pl. silir (RS:324), frequentative sisíla- (Markirya comments), future tense siluva (VT49:38), dual future siluvat (VT49:44, 45)