Qenya
tarka
noun. horn [of animals]
Cognates
- N. tarag “horn; steep mountain peak” ✧ Ety/TARÁK
Derivations
- ᴹ√TARAK “horn (of animals)” ✧ Ety/TARÁK
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TARÁK > tarka [taraka] > [tarka] ✧ Ety/TARÁK
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A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “horn” derived from the root ᴹ√TARAK “horn (of animals)” (Ety/TARÁK).
Conceptual Development: A similar noun ᴱQ. taru “horn” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TARA (QL/89). It was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/89).