ᴺS. [ᴱN.] ^cor- v. “to turn sour, curdle, congeal; to make cheese” (Category: Cheese)
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Derivations
ᴱN. cirtha- v. “to turn sour (tr.)” (Category: Sour, Acidic)
In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s there was an intransitive verb G. cur- “turn, curdle, congeal (intr.) ”, as opposed to transitive G. curtha- “to curdle, make to cheese (tr.)” (GL/28), both clearly derived from the early root ᴱ√TYURU “curdle” (QL/50), where the primitive voiceless palatal stop [c] became [k] in Gnomish but became [ty] in Quenya (PE12/16). The verb cur- was initially not marked as intransitive and had a (deleted) past form caur (GL/28) which became the past form cauri elsewhere in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/25).
In Gnomish Lexicon Slips modifying that document, cur- was glossed “to turn sour (tr. and intr.)” with past forms curthi or cŷr (PE13/112). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s it was again split into a pair of verbs ᴱN. cirtha- [or possibly certha-] “to turn sour (tr.)” (PE13/140) and ᴱN. curann- “to curdle (intr.)” (PE13/141), the latter with past forms cyrenaint or agyraint and infinitive curreni.
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would adapt Gnomish cur- as ᴺS. cor- “to turn sour, curdle, congeal; to make cheese” from the Neo-Root ᴺ√KYUR, where short u became o as was generally the case in Sindarin. I would further assume it was both intransitive and transitive as the verb was in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips.
Reference ✧ PE13/140 ✧ cirtha “to turn sour (tr.)”
Derivations
G. curtha- v. “to curdle, to make cheese (tr.)” (Category: Cheese)
References ✧ GL/28
Glosses
Changes
Elements
| cur- | “to turn sour, curdle, congeal” | ✧ GL/28 |
| #-tha¹ | “verb suffix” | ✧ GL/28 (#-tha) |
ᴱN. #curann- v. “to curdle (intr.)” (Category: Cheese)
References ✧ PE13/141
Inflections
| curenni | infinitive | “to curdle (intr.)” | ✧ PE13/141 |
| agyraint | past | ✧ PE13/141 | |
| cyrenaint | past | ✧ PE13/141 | |
| curanneg | present 3rd-sg | ✧ PE13/141: 3 sg. |
Derivations
G. cur- v. “to turn sour, curdle, congeal” (Category: Cheese)
References ✧ GL/25, 28; PE13/112
Glosses
Variations
Related
Changes
Inflections
| caur | past | ✧ GL/28 |
| cauri | past | ✧ GL/25; GL/28 |
| curthi | past | ✧ PE13/112 |
| cŷr- | past | ✧ PE13/112 |
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Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| #ᴱ√tyuru- > cauri | [tʲūrī] > [kūrī] > [kaurī] > [kauri] | ✧ GL/28 |