Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : KAHA

‽ᴱ√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.

Reference ✧ QL/43 ✧ “cause”

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶kahta
- > G. caith “cause, reason, motive” ✧ GL/24
  - ⇒ G. caitha- “to make to do or be, cause, compel, induce, bring about” ✧ GL/24
  - ⇒ G. caithos “causation” ✧ GL/24
    - ⇒ G. caithonwed “original” ✧ GL/24
> ᴱQ. ká “deed, act, fact” ✧ QL/43
- ⇒ ᴱQ. kaina¹ “done, actual, real” ✧ QL/43
> ᴱQ. ka- “cause” ✧ QL/43
- ⇒ ᴱQ. kamanta- “to make eat, give to eat” ✧ QL/43
- ⇒ ᴱQ. kasóro- “to make sit, set” ✧ QL/43
> ᴱQ. káma “guilt, responsibility” ✧ QL/43
> ᴱQ. kasta “cause, motive, ultimate reason” ✧ QL/43