Eldamo : Quenya : lelta-

Q. #lelta- v. (ta-causative) “to send, *(lit.) cause to go” (Category: to Send)

Q. #lelta-, v. (ta-causative) “to send, *(lit.) cause to go” (Category: to Send)

A verb for “send” appearing in its past form in the phrase yenna leltanelyes “to whom you sent him” in notes from the late 1960s (VT47/21). The word in the sentence is the 2nd-sg-polite past form with a 3rd singular object: lelta-ne-lye-s “send-(past)-you-him”. It was originally given as {tultanelyes}, revised to {lentanelyes} and finally leltanelyes, the first being causative tulta- < √TUL + tā [make come], the second lenta- < (perhaps) √LEN + tā [make journey?] and the last lelta- < √DEL¹ + tā [make go]. As such, lelta- is probably a ta-causative variant of lelya- “go, travel”.

References ✧ VT47/21-22

#lelta- “to send, *(lit.) cause to go” is possibly the causative form of lelya-¹ “to go, proceed (in any direction), travel”

Changes

lentanelyes >> leltanelyes ✧ VT47/22

Inflections

leltanelyes	past 2nd-sg-polite with-sg-object	“you sent him”	✧ VT47/21
leltanelyes	past 2nd-sg-polite with-sg-object		✧ VT47/22
lentanelyes	past 2nd-sg-polite with-sg-object		✧ VT47/22

Element In

Q. yenna leltanelyes “to whom you sent him” ✧ VT47/21

Derivations

< √DEL¹ “walk, go, proceed, travel”