Qenya
nak-
verb. to bite
Cognates
- N. nag- “to bite, to bite; [G.] to chew, gnaw” ✧ Ety/NAK
Derivations
- ᴹ√NAK “bite” ✧ Ety/NAK
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NAK > nak- [nak-] ✧ Ety/NAK Variations
- nak- ✧ Ety/NAK
nak-
verb. to kill, slay; to hate
Cognates
- N. dag- “to slay”
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. ella nakie nye mólome “it is hard work for you to kill me” ✧ PE22/120
- ᴹQ. ha mólome a·ndake poldórear “it is hard work to kill the strong” ✧ PE22/123
- ᴹQ. ha mólome le·nakin(ye) “it is hard work for you to kill me” ✧ PE22/120
- ᴹQ. me·nakilti “we hate them” ✧ PE22/112
- ᴹQ. me·ndakilti “we hate them” ✧ PE22/112
- ᴹQ. mólome nakin(ye) “hard work kills me” ✧ PE22/120
- ᴹQ.
nakuvan tye uvana néra“I will slay thee, wicked man” ✧ PE21/65- ᴹQ. nandakka- “[unglossed]”
- ᴹQ. (ye) mólome nakie·nye “(it is) hard work to kill me” ✧ PE22/120
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶ndăkŭbā̆nyē > nakuvan [ndakuban] > [ndakuβan] > [nakuβan] > [nakuvan] ✧ PE21/65 ᴹ√NDAK- > nake [ndaki] > [ndake] > [nake] ✧ PE22/112
A verb for “bite” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√NAK of the same meaning (Ety/NAK).
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. naka- “bite” dates back to the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, already based on ᴱ√NAKA “bite” (QL/64; PME/64).