Gnomish
salca-
verb. to scythe or mow
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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!
salca-
verb. to scythe or mow
A verb appearing as G. salca- “to scythe or mow” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/66), clearly a cognate to ᴱQ. silki- “mow, scythe, mow down” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√SḶKḶ also having to do with “grass” words (QL/84).
Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s updated the basis for “grass” words to ᴹ√SALAK+wē (Ety/SALÁK), so I think this Gnomish verb can be salvaged for purposes of Neo-Sindarin. However, in Sindarin phonology it would become ᴺS. salcha- “to scythe or mow”.