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Q. carina adj. “done” (Category: to Do, Make)

Q. carina, adj. “done, [ᴹQ.] made, [ᴱQ.] finished” (Category: to Do, Make)
ᴱQ. caina¹ “done, actual, real”

This is the passive participle of the verb Q. car- “to do, make” and thus means “done, made”. In later writings, it appeared as an element in Q. lacarina “undone” (PE22/156) and in some versions of Quenya prayers from the 1950s in the phrase: na carina mendelya “thy will be done” (VT43/8-9).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, ᴱQ. karina was glossed “finished” under the early root ᴱ√KARA “do, make” (QL/45), but in this period it seems to be an ordinary adjective rather than a passive participle of the verb. ᴹQ. karina was a passive participle in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s, where it was glossed “made” (PE22/111).

Neo-Quenya: The meanings “done” vs. “made” depend on context. It could mean “made” in phrases like nauco-carina macil “a dwarf-made sword”, but in ordinary use it mostly likely has the sense “done, finished, *complete” as in samin i carina macil “I have the done/finished sword”.

References ✧ PE22/156; VT43/15

Glosses

Variations

Elements

car- “to do, make” passive-participle ✧ VT43/15 (carina)

Element In


ᴹQ. karina adj. “made” (Category: to Finish)

See Q. carina for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE22/111 ✧ “made”

Elements

kar- “to do, make, build” passive-participle ✧ PE22/111 (karina)

ᴱQ. karina adj. “finished” (Category: to Finish)

See Q. carina for discussion.

References ✧ QL/41, 45

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

#karna suffix ✧ QL/41

Elements

kara- “to do, make” ✧ QL/45 (#kar-)
#-ina “adjectival suffix” ✧ QL/45 (#-ina)

Element In

Cognates