Quenya 

casta

one fourth

casta (1) ("k")fraction "one fourth" (1/4). Also canasta, cansat (VT48:11)

casta

cause

casta (2) noun "cause" (reason) (QL:43)

Castamir

casta[?]-jewel

Castamir masc. name, "casta[?]-jewel" (Appendix A)

castamir

masculine name. Castamir

The usurper who took the throne of Gondor from Eldacar for a decade until he was in turn overthrown (LotR/1047). The final element of his name is probably mírë “jewel”, but the meaning of the initial element is unclear.

Quenya [LotRI/Castamir; PMI/Kastamir] Group: Eldamo. Published by

canasta

one fourth

canasta ("k")fraction "one fourth" (1/4). Also cansat, casta (VT48:11)

cansat

one fourth

cansat ("k")fraction "one fourth" (1/4). Also canasta, casta (VT48:11)

cansat

fraction. one fourth

ca(na)sta

fraction. one fourth, one fourth, *quarter

Castamir

Castamir

His name is Quenya and apparently includes -mir "jewel". The first element, *casta, is not translated but it could be a variant of cassa "helmet". In that case, his name means "helmet-jewel" or "jeweled helmet"

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castar

castar

Westron castar bears a striking resemblance to the Hobbitish word kast and Rohirric kastu, which mean "mathom". Sindarin mirian seems to be derived from mîr, "jewel".

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tyar-

cause

tyar- vb. "cause" (KYAR)

tyar-

verb. cause

Quenya [PE 22:154] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

Primitive elvish

kah

root. cause


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Westron

kastar

noun. kastar

Early Quenya

ka-

prefix. cause

Early Quenya [QL/043] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

kaha

root. cause

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “cause” with derivatives like ᴱQ. ka- “cause”, ᴱQ. káma “guilt, responsibility”, and ᴱQ. kasta “cause, motive, ultimate reason” (QL/43). There are similar derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, such as G. caith “cause, reason, motive” < ᴱ✶kahta (GL/24). Some of these words have no good replacements in Tolkien’s later writing, so I think it is worthwhile to postulate a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KAH to salvage some of these early words.

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