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Early Quenya

karpale

noun. a plucking, tugging, wrenching; deceiving, tricking

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√KᴬRPᴬR [KṚPṚ], with glosses “a plucking, tugging, wrenching — deceiving, tricking” (QL/45).

Derivations

Element in

  • Eq. karpalima “tricky, clever, willy” ✧ QL/045

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√KᴬRPᴬR > karpale[kṛpalē] > [kṛpale] > [karpale]✧ QL/045
Early Quenya [QL/045] Group: Eldamo. Published by