aiqa

adjective. steep, steep, [ᴱQ.] tall; high, lofty, sublime; chief

A word for “steep” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√AYAK “sharp, pointed” (Ety/AYAK).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s also had ᴱQ. aiqa “steep” (QL/29). The English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s translated this word as “high, lofty, sublime”, saying it was also used to mean “high, chief” (PEl5/74). The contemporaneous Early Noldorin Dictionary had ᴱQ. aiqa as the cognate to ᴱN. aig “high, steep”, both derived from primitive ᴱ✶ai-kwa (PE13/158). The primitive form ✶aikwā “tall, steep” reappeared later in the second version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa (TQ2) from around 1950 (PE18/50). In the Earendel poem from around 1930, its (Early Qenya) nominative plural form alqalin was translated “tall” in the phrase ᴱQ. tyulmin talalínen __aiqalin__ kautáron “the tall masts bent with the sails” (MC/216).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would just use aiqua to mean “steep”.