Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : PAKAT

√PAKAT root. “*talk, speech”

√PAKAT root. “*talk, speech”: √KARAP “*talk, speech”

This root appeared in notes probably dating to the early 1960s as the basis for words for “speech”, probably replacing another root √KARAP of similar meaning, and with a deleted variant √PATAK (PE17/126). The root √PAKAT itself was probably a restoration of a (hypothetical) early root *ᴱ√PAKATA, the likely basis for “speech” words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. pactha- “utter, speak, talk” and G. paithron “orator” (GL/63).

References ✧ PE17/126

Variations

PAKAT ✧ PE17/126
PATAK ✧ PE17/126

Q. karpa- “talk, speak, use tongue” with an arrow (possibly indicating replacement) drawn to PAKAT ✧ PE17/126

Changes

PATAK >> PAKAT ✧ PE17/126

Derivatives

> ᴺQ. ^pahta- “to speak, talk (intransitive)”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !pahtando “orator”
> ᴺS. ^paetha- “to utter, speak, talk”
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^paethad “oratory”
> Q. pahta² “speech” ✧ PE17/126
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !pahtalanga “interpretation”
  - ⇒ ᴺQ. !pahtalanga- “to translate (speech), interpret”
- ⇒ Q. úpahtëa “speechless” ✧ PE17/126
> Q. †pakta- “to speak, talk (intransitive)” ✧ PE17/126
> S. paeth “speech” ✧ PE17/126
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^paethron “orator”
- ⇒ S. Golodhbaeth “*Noldor-speech” ✧ PE17/126