Eldamo : Early Quenya : kastea

ᴱQ. kastea adj. “of the head; head-, capital, chief” (Category: First)

A word appearing as ᴱQ. kastea “of the head; head-, capital, chief” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. kas “head” (QL/045).

Neo-Quenya: Luinyelle and Arael proposed using ᴺQ. castëa to mean “top” in a 2022-05-23 post to the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) based on Q. cas(ta) “to the top”. Like its English equivalent “top”, castëa may also be used to mean “prominent, chief” based on its Early Qenya glosses.

Reference ✧ QL/45 ✧ “of the head; head-, capital, chief”

Derivations

< ᴱ√KASA “head” ✧ QL/45

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√KASA > kastea

[kastejā] > [kasteja] > [kasteia] > [kastea]

✧ QL/45