Middle Primitive Elvish
khaw
root. rest, lie at ease
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹ✶khaustā “rest-ing” ✧ Ety/KHAW
korka
root. crow
Changes
KARKA→ KORKA “crow” ✧ Ety/KARKADerivatives
Variations
- KARKA ✧ Ety/KARKA (
KARKA)
ezdē
noun. rest
Derivations
- ᴹ√SED “rest” ✧ PE19/045
Derivatives
Variations
- EZDĒ ✧ Ety/EZDĒ; Ety/SED
- Ezdē ✧ PE19/045
sed
root. rest
Derivatives
- ᴹ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ PE19/045
- ᴹQ. senda “resting, at peace” ✧ Ety/SED
- ᴹQ. ser- “to rest, repose; to stay, tarry, stop, be for a while, at the moment” ✧ Ety/SED; PE22/102; PE22/125
- ᴹQ. sére “rest, repose, peace” ✧ Ety/SED
- ᴹQ.
erde“repose” ✧ Ety/SED- ᴹQ. seru- “to settle on, sit or lie down, come to rest on”
- N. sîdh “peace” ✧ Ety/SED
Element in
- ᴹ✶ezdē “rest” ✧ Ety/EZDĒ; Ety/SED
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “crow”, with derivatives ᴹQ. korko and N. corch of the same meaning; it replaced a root ᴹ√KARKA with derivatives ᴹQ. karka and N. carach (Ety/KARKA). The deleted form conflicted with contemporaneous ᴹ√KARAK “sharp fang, spike, tooth” (Ety/KARAK). This deleted form nevertheless may be connected to S. crebain from The Lord of the Rings (LotR/285), whose singular craban “bird of crow-kind” (PE17/37) might be derived from ✱k(a)rak-wan.
There is another primitive form ✶k(a)wāk used as the basis for “crow” in the Quendi and Eldar of 1959-60 (WJ/395), but even later this primitive form was the basis for Q. quácë “frog” (VT47/36); see the entry on √KAWAK for discussion. As a result, I think earlier ᴹ√KORKA is probably the best choice for “crow” words for the purpose of Neo-Eldarin.