raica

adjective. crooked, crooked, [ᴹQ.] bent, wrong

A word for “crooked” derived from √RIK “twist” appearing in notes associated with the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 (VT39/7, 9). ᴹQ. raika also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the glosses “crooked, bent, wrong” under the root ᴹ√RAYAK (Ety/RÁYAK). It appeared in its (1930s-style) plural form raikar in various versions of the Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s in the phrase ilya sí maller raikar “now all roads (are) bent” (LR/47; LR/56; SD/310).

Note that The Etymologies of the 1930s also had ᴹQ. téra “straight, right” (Ety/TEƷ). So it seems Quenya used the metaphor “straight = right” and “crooked = wrong” (at least in the 1930s).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had similar forms ᴱQ. pere̜qa “crooked” and ᴱQ. perqa “wrong” (QL/73).

raica

crooked, bent, wrong

raica ("k") adj. "crooked, bent, wrong" (RÁYAK, VT39:7), pl. raicar in LR:47 (read perhaps *raicë in LotR-style Quenya)

cauca

crooked

cauca _("k")_adj. "crooked" (LT1:257; cf. #caw-)

hwarin

crooked

hwarin adj. "crooked" (SKWAR)

rempa

crooked, hooked

rempa adj. "crooked, hooked" (REP)