Quenya 

polca

pig

polca ("k")noun "pig" (QL:75)

polca

noun. pig

Derivations

  • √POL “can, have physical power and ability; large, big (strong); pound up, break up small, reduce to powder, can, have physical power and ability; large, big (strong); [ᴹ√] physically strong, [ᴱ√] have stength; [√] pound up, break up small, reduce to powder”

Element in

Sindarin 

hunc

noun. pig

A noun appearing as G. hunc “pig” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s of unclear derivation (GL/49).

Neo-Sindarin: I’d retain this word as ᴺS. hunc for purposes of Neo-Sindarin as there are no good alternatives.

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Gnomish

hunc

noun. pig

Element in

  • G. hugin “young pig” ✧ GL/49

Early Quenya

polka

noun. pig

The word ᴱQ. polka “pig” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, under the early root ᴱ√POLO “have strength”, but Tolkien marked it with a “?” (QL/75). However, it appeared elsewhere as an element in ᴱQ. karkapolka “boar” = “✱tusk pig” (QL/48).

Neo-Quenya: I’d retain this word as ᴺQ. polca for purposes of Neo-Quenya, since √POL survived in Tolkien’s later writings.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√POLO “have stength” ✧ QL/075

Element in

  • Eq. karkapolka “boar, *(lit.) tusk-pig” ✧ QL/048

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√POLO > polka[polkā] > [polka]✧ QL/075
Early Quenya [PME/075; QL/048; QL/075] Group: Eldamo. Published by