luk-

verb. to pull

A verb appearing as ᴱQ. luk- “pull” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/134). A set of what appears to be past forms (lunke, ulunke, ulunket, unlunke) appeared in various versions of an untranslated sentence in the same document: unlunke naiqe yu vaile·na ar elle ha men ambostuva, perhaps meaning “✱he pulled his sword from the sheath and drove it into the breast” as suggested by the editors (PE16/146).

Neo-Quenya: In Tolkien’s later writings he had a root √LUK “haul, drag” (PE17/28). Therefore I think that this early verb can be retained as ᴺQ. luc- “to haul, drag, pull” based on the later root. I would use it primarily in the sense “pull [behind]”, as opposed to ᴹQ. tuk- “draw, ✱pull [toward]”.