The word ᴱQ. qerka appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as the cognate of G. cwerc “throat” (GL/28). ᴱQ. qerka “throat” appeared again in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/136), but in a list of body parts from this same period it was ᴱQ. qelqa “throat” (PE14/117). There are no signs of these words in Tolkien’s later writings.
Early Quenya
kaile
noun. lip
kailen
noun. throat, gullet
kilme
noun. lip
kilma
noun. lip
qelqa
noun. throat
qerka
noun. throat
A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “throat, gullet”, based on the early root ᴱ√KAẎA (QL/46). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “throat” (PME/46).