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Q. caraitë (caraiti-) adj. “active, busy” (Category: Action)

Q. caraitë (caraiti-), adj. “active, busy; ⚠️[ᴹQ.] able to make, handy, crafty, craftsmanlike, skilled” (Category: Action)
Q. vecca “active”

An adjective for “active, busy” appearing in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, a combination of car- “do, make” with the suffix -itë (PE22/155). ᴹQ. karaite also appeared in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) of the late 1940s, but there it had a variant karamaite and was glossed “able to make, handy, craftsmanlike, skilled” (PE22/111), since in the 1930s and 40s ᴹQ. kar- tended to mean only “make” and not “do”. For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would stick to the later meaning “active, busy”.

Reference ✧ PE22/155 ✧ karaite “active, busy”

Elements

-itë “adjectival ending; [with verbs] capable of doing, generally (and naturally) doing” ✧ PE22/155 (aite)

Element In

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

KAR > karaite [karaiti] > [karaite] ✧ PE22/155

ᴹQ. karaite (karaiti-) adj. “able to make, handy, crafty, craftsmanlike, skilled” (Category: Craft, Trade)

References ✧ PE22/111

Glosses

Variations

Elements

kar- “to do, make, build”
-ite “(verbal) adjective ending” ✧ PE22/111 (aite); PE22/111 (maite); PE22/111 (maite)