laik

root. keen, sharp, acute

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “keen, sharp, acute” with derivatives like ᴹQ. laika/N. lhaeg of the same meaning; apparently the root was the result of a-fortification of ᴹ√LIK (Ety/LAIK; EtyAC/LAIK). It was thus distinct from ᴹ√LÁYAK “✱green, fresh” (Ety/LÁYAK). The root ᴹ√LAIK was clearly a later iteration of unglossed ᴱ√LAIKA from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. laika “keen, sharp” (QL/50), but in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien gave the primitive form as ᴱ✶leika > both G. (g)leg “keen, sharp, piercing” and ᴱQ. laika (GL/53). Since [[eq|[ei] became [ai]]] in Early Qenya, ᴱ✶leika seems more represenative of the 1910s form of this root.

Derivatives

• ᴹ✶laikā “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ Ety/LÁYAK
  • Ilk. laig “fresh, lively; keen, sharp” ✧ Ety/LÁYAK
  • ᴹQ. laika “keen, sharp, acute”
  • On. laika “keen”
  • N. lhaeg “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ EtyAC/LAIK
• ᴹQ. laika “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ Ety/LAIK
• ᴹQ. laike “acuteness, keenness of perception” ✧ Ety/LAIK
• N. lhaeg “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ Ety/LAIK
• On. laika “keen” ✧ Ety/LAIK
  • N. lhaeg “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ EtyAC/LAIK

Variations

• LIK ✧ EtyAC/LAIK

laikā

adjective. keen, sharp, acute

Derivations

• ᴹ√LAIK “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ Ety/LÁYAK

Derivatives

• Ilk. laig “fresh, lively; keen, sharp” ✧ Ety/LÁYAK
• ᴹQ. laika “keen, sharp, acute”
• On. laika “keen”
  • N. lhaeg “keen, sharp, acute” ✧ EtyAC/LAIK

Variations

• laika ✧ Ety/LÁYAK