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Q. circa n. “sickle” (Category: Scythe, Sickle)

Q. circa, n. “sickle” (Category: Scythe, Sickle)

A word for “sickle” in the name Q. Valacirca “Sickle of the Valar”, which is the Quenya name for the constellation of the Great Bear (S/48; MR/166). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹQ. kirka “sickle” was derived from the root ᴹ√KIRIK (Ety/KIRIK).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s Tolkien had ᴱQ. kalka “sickle” derived from the early root ᴱ√KḶKḶ “gather, collect, reap” (QL/47; PME/47). This corresponds to the earliest Qenya name of the constellation of the Great Bear: ᴱQ. Telpea Kalka “*Silvern Sickle” (QL/47; PME/47).

Reference ✧ S/48 ✧ “sickle”

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ᴹQ. kirka n. “sickle” (Category: Scythe, Sickle)

See Q. circa for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/KIRIK ✧ “sickle”

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ᴹ√KIRIK > kirka [kirka] ✧ Ety/KIRIK

ᴱQ. kalka n. “sickle” (Category: Scythe, Sickle)

See Q. circa for discussion.

References ✧ PME/47; QL/47

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ᴱ√KḶKḶ > kalka [kḹkā] > [kḹka] > [kalka] ✧ QL/47