nark

noun. spiteful remark, snap of a dog

A word appearing as ᴱQ. nark “spiteful remark, snap of a dog” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ŊARA “bite at” (QL/64).

Conceptual Development: The later Sindarin word S. narch “bitter-biting” hints that this early word might remain conceptually valid. I would therefore retain this noun as ᴺQ. narcë “rend, tear”, with extended meanings “snap of a dog; spiteful remark” for hurtful sounds based on the root ᴹ√NARAK “tear, rend (tr. and intr.)”; compare also [ᴹQ.] naraka “violent (?of sounds)” from that same root.

narka

adjective. dead

An adjective for “dead” implied by the stative formation narkea “is dead” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/140), perhaps connected to some precursor of √NDAK “slay”.

narka

adjective. snappy, ill-tempered

mána

adjective. dead

An adjective for “dead” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s based on the verb ᴱQ. maka- “die” (PE14/58).

qalna

adjective. dead

warda

adjective. dead

An adjective for “dead” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√GWṚÐṚ “die” (QL/104), given as a cognate to G. gwarth “dead (only of persons)” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/44).