marta- (1) vb. "to chance" or *"happen" (QL:63), cf. mart- "it happens" (impersonal) (LT2:348 read marta-?). Another version assigns transitive meanings to the same verb: "to define, decree, destine" (with the last sense = martya-, q.v.), with a variant umbarta- "in more lofty senses" (PE17:104)
Quenya
marta-
verb. to define, decree, destine, to define, decree, destine; [ᴱQ.] to happen (impers.), chance
marta-
to chance
umbarta-
to define, decree, destine
umbarta- vb. "to define, decree, destine"; this form of the verb was used "in more lofty senses", otherwise marta- (PE17:104)
umbarta-
verb. to define, decree, destine
@@@ NQ. gloss “decide” suggested by Robert Reynolds