Primitive elvish
nyath
root. *scratch
Derivatives
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Early Primitive Elvish
nyasa
root. *scratch
Derivatives
An unglossed root ᴱ√NYASA appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. nyas “scratch, score, line, mark” and ᴱQ. nyasa- “to scratch” (QL/68). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth retaining its derivatives for purposes of Neo-Eldarin. However, it would need to become a Neo-Root ᴺ√NYATH to preserve the Early Qenya verb ᴱQ. nyasa-, since a direct derivative of √NYAS would become nyar-, conflicting with the later verb Q. nyar- “tell”.