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