Eldamo : Quenya : carrëa

Q. carrëa n. “tressure” (Category: Adornment (personal))

Q. carrëa, n. “tressure, *headdress” (Category: Adornment (personal))

A noun for “tressure” in notes from the late 1960s derived from ✶cas-raya = √KAS “head” + √RAY “net, lace” (VT42/12). Given this word’s etymology, Tolkien was probably using “tressure” with its Middle English sense = “headdress”.

References ✧ PE22/159; VT42/12

Glosses

“a tressure” ✧ VT42/12

Cognates

S. cathrae “tressure, *headdress” ✧ PE22/159; VT42/12

Derivations

< ✶kasraya “a tressure” ✧ PE22/159 (karrai); VT42/12 (cas-raya)

Phonetic Developments

✶karrai > carrea	[casraja] > [casrea] > [cazrea] > [carrea]	✧ PE22/159
✶cas-raya > carrea	[casraja] > [casrea] > [cazrea] > [carrea]	✧ VT42/12