Eldamo : Middle Quenya : lehta-

ᴹQ. lehta- v. (weak-verb) “to loose, slacken” (Category: to Release)

ᴹQ. lehta-, v. (weak-verb) “to loose, slacken” (Category: to Release): ᴱQ. lapta- “?to relax, loosen”; ᴱQ. lehta- “to ride, move (tr.)”

A verb appearing as ᴹQ. lehta “loose, slacken” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√LEK “loose, let loose, release” (Ety/LEK). It had a variant form, given as leuka in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road (LR/368), but in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne stated the actual form was lenka (VT45/27).

References ✧ Ety/LEK; EtyAC/LEK

Glosses

“loose, slacken” ✧ Ety/LEK (lenka); Ety/LEK

Variations

lehta ✧ Ety/LEK
lenka ✧ Ety/LEK

Changes

leuka »» lenka “loose, slacken” ✧ EtyAC/LEK

Element In

Q. etelehta- “*to deliver, (lit.) free from”

Cognates

N. lheithia- “to release, set free” ✧ Ety/LEK (lheitho)

Derivations

< ᴹ√LEK “loose, let loose, release” ✧ Ety/LEK; Ety/LEK

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√LEK > lenka	[leŋka-]	✧ Ety/LEK
ᴹ√LEK > lehta	[lekta-] > [lexta-]	✧ Ety/LEK