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ᴺQ. [ᴹQ.] ^ortima adj. “able to be raised” (Category: to Lift, Raise)

ᴺQ. [ᴹQ.] ^ortima, adj. “able to be raised” (Category: to Lift, Raise)
See ᴹQ. ortalima for discussion.

Elements

Q. orta-¹ “to raise, lift (up), (lit.) cause to rise”
Q. -ima “-able, possibility”

ᴹQ. ortalima adj. “able to be raised” (Category: to Lift, Raise)

An adjective appearing as [ᴹQ.] ortalima “able to be raised” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948, based on the verb orta- “raise” (PE22/111). In that document, -(a)lima was used for the suffix “-able” within the class of weak or derived verbs.

Neo-Quenya: The variant -alima appears nowhere other than QVS, and in Tolkien’s later writings he used -ima “-able” for all classes of verbs (PE22/156). As such, I would update this word to ᴺQ. ortaima for purposes of Neo-Quenya.

Reference ✧ PE22/111 ✧ “able to be raised”

Elements

orta-¹ “to raise, lift”
-ima “able to be done, -able, -ible” ✧ PE22/111 (ălima)