Quenya 

car

deed

car (card-) (3) ("k")noun "deed" (rewritten >) "building, house" (KAR). Cf. carda.

carda

deed

carda noun "deed" (PE17:51). Cf. car #3. The word may contain the ending -da (q.v.) denoting the result of the corresponding verbal action.

carda

noun. deed

Quenya [PE 22:152] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

carda

noun. deed

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”.

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). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, the word appeared as ᴹQ. kar (kard-), but this gloss was rejected and replaced by ᴹQ. kar “building” (Ety/KAR). The form karma “deed” also appeared in some later writings, but was rejected (PE22/138).

Cognates

Elements

WordGloss
car-“to do, make, to do, make, [ᴹQ.] build”
-da“product of an action”

Variations

  • karda ✧ PE17/051; PE22/152
  • karma ✧ PE22/138 (karma)
Quenya [PE17/051; PE22/138; PE22/152] Group: Eldamo. Published by

carma

noun. deed

Sindarin 

carth

noun. deed

Sindarin noun for a “deed”, attested only in its lenited plural form gerth within the word úgarth “trespass” (VT44/28), which probably more literally means “✱misdeed”. This word is not completely compatible with its Quenya cognate Q. carda “deed” from primitive ✶kardā, which in Sindarin should produce ✱cardh. Perhaps the Sindarin word had a slightly different primitive form ✱✶kartā. The expect form cardh might appear as an element in the variant form athragardh of S. athragared “interaction”.

Conceptual Development: Perhaps the earliest precursor of this word is G. carm “act, deed, exploit” in the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s (GL/25; PE13/111), cognate of contemporaneous ᴱQ. karma “shape, fashion; act, deed” (QL/45). In the Early Noldorin word lists from the 1920s, this word was revised to ᴱN. carbh “deed” (PE13/140), reflecting Tolkien’s changing conception of the phonetic development of final -m in Noldorin. In The Etymologies from the 1930s, the word appeared as N. carth or carð “deed” (cardh), but these forms were rejected and replaced by N. car(ð) “building” (Ety/KAR).

Cognates

Element in

  • ᴺS. carthas “activity”
  • S. úgarth “trespass, *(lit.) misdeed” ✧ VT44/28

carn

noun. deed

A Sindarin noun for a “deed”, attested only in its lenited form garn within the word othgarn “misdeed” (PE17/151). The alternate form carth “deed” is perhaps better attested.

Element in

  • S. othgarn “misdeed, misdeed, *sin” ✧ PE17/151
Sindarin [PE17/151] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cardh

deed

cardh (i gardh, o chardh), pl. cerdh (i cherdh). Note: cardh may also mean "house, building".

cardh

deed

(i gardh, o chardh), pl. cerdh (i cherdh). Note: cardh may also mean "house, building".

úgarth

ill deed

(sin), pl. úgerth (VT44:23)

Noldorin 

carth

noun. deed, feat

Noldorin [Ety/362] Group: SINDICT. Published by

carth

noun. deed

Changes

  • carthcarð “deed” ✧ Ety/KAR

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. kar “deed” ✧ Ety/KAR

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KAR “make, build, construct” ✧ Ety/KAR

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KAR > carth[karta] > [kartʰa] > [karθa] > [karθ]✧ Ety/KAR

Variations

  • carð ✧ Ety/KAR (carð)

cardh

noun. deed, feat

Noldorin [Ety/362] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Qenya 

kar

noun. deed

Changes

  • karkar “deed” ✧ Ety/KAR

Cognates

  • N. carth “deed” ✧ Ety/KAR

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KAR “make, build, construct” ✧ Ety/KAR

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KAR > kar[kard] > [kar]✧ Ety/KAR

Variations

  • kar ✧ Ety/KAR (kar)

Early Noldorin

carbh

noun. deed

Changes

  • carmcarbh “deed” ✧ PE13/140

Variations

  • carm ✧ PE13/140 (carm)
Early Noldorin [PE13/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by