A word glossed “stricken ill, sick” in notes associated with drafts of the Oilima Markirya poem (PE16/75). It might be related to the early root ᴱ√NAẎA as suggested by the editors.
Early Quenya
naika
noun. dagger
naika
adjective. stricken ill, sick
naiko
adverb. *sickly
An adverbial form of ᴱQ. naika “stricken ill, sick” (PE16/75), hence meaning “✱sickly”. It appeared in the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem from around 1930 (MC/221).
noiko
adverb. *sickly
A word for “dagger” mentioned in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a cognate of G. gaig “a weapon, tool” (GL/37) perhaps based on the early root ᴱ√ŊAHYA “hurt, grieve” (QL/34).