Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : RAK

[ᴱ]*√RAK root. “break”

[ᴱ]*√RAK root. “break”

This root appeared as ᴱ√RAKA “pile up” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with derivatives like ᴱQ. rakta- “pile, hoard, amass, collect” and ᴱQ. rakte “pile, heap” (QL/78). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, there are similar forms with different meanings: G. ractha “breach” and G. rag- “break asunder, burst” (GL/64). This conceptual shift from “pile up” to “*break” is supported by the word ᴱQ. ranka “broken” in drafts of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya from the end of the 1920s (PE16/77). Q. rak- “break” reappeared in the revised version of that poem from the late 1960s (MC/222-223), implying the root remained valid or (more likely) was abandoned but later restored. Q. rakine “stripped” in phonetic notes from 1959-60 might be related.

*RAK “break” vs. ᴹ√RAK “stretch out, reach”

Derivatives

> ᴺS. ^raeth² “breach, *burst”
> ᴺS. rag- “to break (asunder), burst”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !ragui “fragile, breakable”
> Q. rac- “to break”
- ⇒ 4 compounds

ᴱ√RAKA root. “pile up; *break”

See *√RAK for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/78 ✧ “pile up”

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶araka “shingle, piles of stones”
- > ᴱQ. arak “shingle, piles of stones” ✧ QL/30
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. arakte “(stony) beach” ✧ QL/30
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. soraksa “shingle”
> ᴱQ. rakta-² “to pile, hoard, amass, collect” ✧ QL/78
> ᴱQ. rakte “pile, heap” ✧ QL/78
- ⇒ ᴱQ. sorakte “beach” ✧ QL/85
> ᴱQ. ranka “broken”
> G. ractha- “to shatter”
> G. ractha “breach”
> G. rag- “to break asunder, burst”
> G. ranc “burst, breach”