A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “cluck”, with derivatives ᴱQ. keket “pheasant” and ᴱQ. kekteket “clucking” (QL/46). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth retaining for purposes of Neo-Eldarin.
Early Primitive Elvish
keke
root. to bubble up
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keke
root. cluck
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- KEKE ✧ QL/046
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “to bubble up”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. kektele “fountain” and G. caithl “source, fount, origin” (QL/46; GL/25). In later writings, “spring” was derived from ᴹ✶et-kelē = ᴹ√ET “out” + ᴹ√KEL “flow”, so that ᴱ√KEKE¹ “to bubble up” was probably abandoned.