lícuma

taper, candle

lícuma ("k")noun "taper, candle"

lícuma

noun. taper, candle

A word for “taper, candle” in notes associated with the versions of the Markirya poem from the 1960s, an elaboration of líco “wax” (MC/223).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s had ᴱQ. katinka “candle” based on the early root ᴱ√KATYA (QL/45).

Cognates

• ᴺS. lígu “candle”

Element in

• Q. loicolícuma “corpse-candle” ✧ MC/223

Variations

• líkuma ✧ MC/223

líco

wax

líco ("k")noun "wax" (Markirya comments, MC:223). The related noun lícuma "candle" suggests that líco has the stem-form lícu-.

líco

noun. wax

A word for “wax” in notes associated with the versions of the Markirya poem from the 1960s (MC/223). It might be based on the root √LIK “glide, slide, slip, drip” from a different set of 1960s notes (NM/283).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. neite as cognate to G. nith “wax”, both derived from primitive ᴱ✶nēgittĕ (GL/60).

Cognates

• ᴺS. lîg “wax”

Derivations

• √LIK “glide, slip, slide, drip”

Element in

• Q. lícuma “taper, candle” ✧ MC/223
• ᴺQ. lihta “seal”
• ᴺQ. lihta- “to seal”

Variations

• líko ✧ MC/223

neitë

wax

neitë noun "wax" (GL:60; rather líco in Tolkien's later Quenya. The status of the diphthong ei is uncertain; in the LotR appendices, Tolkien did not list ei among the Quenya diphthongs, so perhaps the word neitë from an early source is conceptually obsolete also in terms of phonology.)

lîg

noun. wax

A neologism for “wax” coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo, the equivalent of Q. líco “wax”.

Cognates

• Q. líco “wax”

Element in

• ᴺS. lígu “candle”