Quenya 

quap-

verb. to chaffer, bargain, swap, barter

Derivations

  • ᴺ✶. KWAP “chaffer, *haggle, bargain”

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Early Primitive Elvish

qapa

root. chaffer

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “chaffer”, which is an archaic word for “haggle”; it has a number of derivatives having to do barter and bargaining like ᴱQ. qampo “pedlar, huckster”, ᴱQ. qapta “deal, bargain”, and ᴱQ. qapta- “to exchange” (QL/76). These early words have no clear replacements in Tolkien’s later writing, so I recommend positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KWAP to salvage these early words.

Derivatives

  • Eq. qampa “peddlar-goods” ✧ QL/076
  • Eq. qampa- “to hawk goods” ✧ QL/076
  • Eq. qampo “pedlar, huckster” ✧ QL/076
  • Eq. qapa- “to chaffer, bargain, swap, barter” ✧ QL/076
  • Eq. qapta “deal, bargain” ✧ QL/076
  • Eq. qapta- “to exchange” ✧ QL/076
  • En. pap- “[unglossed]”
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/076] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

qapa-

verb. to chaffer, bargain, swap, barter

Cognates

  • En. pap- “[unglossed]” ✧ PE13/132

Derivations

  • ᴱ√QAPA “chaffer” ✧ QL/076

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√QAPA > qapa-[kʷapa-]✧ QL/076

Variations

  • qapa ✧ PE13/132
Early Quenya [PE13/132; QL/076] Group: Eldamo. Published by