tancata-
verb. to make firm, fix, confirm
Derivations
- ✶tankatā- “to make firm, fix, confirm” ✧ PE22/157
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tankātā- > tankata [taŋkātā] > [taŋkatā] > [taŋkata] ✧ PE22/157 Variations
- tankatā ✧ PE17/076
- tankata ✧ PE22/157 (tankata)
tancata
verb. to make firm, fix
tankatā-
verb. to make firm, fix, confirm
Derivatives
- Q. tancata- “to make firm, fix, confirm” ✧ PE22/157
Variations
- tañkātā̆ ✧ PE22/129
- tañkatā́ ✧ PE22/135
- tankātā- ✧ PE22/157 (tankātā-)
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tankata-
verb. to make fixed or firm, confirm
Cognates
- N. tangad(a)- “to make firm, confirm, establish, to make firm, confirm, establish, [ᴱN.] fix”
Derivations
- ᴹ✶tankāta- “to make firm”
Variations
- tañkatā́ ✧ PE22/114
tankāta-
verb. to make firm
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. tankata- “to make fixed or firm, confirm”
- N. tangad(a)- “to make firm, confirm, establish, to make firm, confirm, establish, [ᴱN.] fix” ✧ PE17/044; PE17/044
Variations
- tánkā̆ta- ✧ PE17/044
This one is tricky. Q. tankata- is the cognate of N./S. tangad(a)- which is the normal example Tolkien used to justify the N./S. past tense suffix -ant, via analogy with half-strong past tense N./S. tangant and Q. tankante.
However, according to Q. descriptions, this verb would be expected to have a weak past ✱✱tankatáne. Thus I think tankata- actually represents conceptual vacillations on Tolkien’s parts from divergent ideas for the evolution of past tenses of Q and S, which he seems not to have resolved.
As evidence of this, see Tolkien’s aborted attempt to devise a new origin for the S past tense suffix on PE22/157:
> Make a Q. past continuous. was eating. mātante. istante, oryante, ortante. (?More) like (?aorist) in syntax. and also helps to explain wide[?] use of -ant as past in S. [added underneath] better mātānē > mātane. istane (PE22/157).