Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : HAKA

?ᴱ√HAKA root. “*squat”

⚠️?ᴱ√HAKA root. “*squat”: ^ᴺ√KHAK “*squat”

A hypothetical root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as ᴱQ. haka- “squat”, G. hag- “sit, sit down” and ᴱQ. hakka/G. hacha “the hams, buttocks” (GL/47). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is useful to hypothesize a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KHAK to let us salvage some of these early words.

?HAKA “*squat” for “sit” is likely replaced by √KHAD “sit”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. haka- “to squat”
> ᴱQ. hakka “the hams, buttocks”
> G. hacha “the hams, buttocks”
> G. hag- “to sit, sit down”
- ⇒ G. hagra “seated” ✧ GL/47