3.32 Boar ᴱQ. karkapolka n. “boar, *(lit.) tusk-pig” The word ᴱQ. karkapolka “boar” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a combination of ᴱQ. karka “fang, tooth, tusk” and ᴱQ. polka “pig” (QL/48), hence literally “*tusk pig”. Conceptual Development: The word for “boar” in the Early Qenya Word-lists
Elvish Words – Animals
Select Elvish Words 3.25-3.29: Sheep, Ram, Lamb
3.25 Sheep Q. máma n. “sheep” A word for “sheep” appearing in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 as a derivative of ✶māmā (WJ/395). It appeared again in notes from 1968 as a derivative of ✶mbāba (VT47/35), apparently with some amount of assimilation since the second primitive b >
Select Elvish Words 3.21-3.24: Bull, Cow, Calf
3.21 Bull Q. mundo n. “bull, ox” A word for “bull” in a 1972 letter to Meriel Thurston (Let/422). A similar form mondo appeared as an element in the name Q. Mondósar “Oxford” from a 1968 letter (DTS/70). See S. mund for other possible conceptual precursors. S. mund n. “bull”
Select Elvish Words 3.16-3.18: Pasture, Herdsman
3.16 to Pasture ᴱQ. nesta- vb. “to feed” The verb ᴱQ. nesta- “feed” appeared in the Quenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a derivative of the early root ᴱ√NESE “give to feed; feed, pasture; graze” (QL/66). It has past forms nēse and nesse, indicating a close relationship to the verb
Select Elvish Words 3.11: Animal
3.11 Animal Q. celva n. “animal, living thing that moves” A word used in its plural form kelvar to describe animals in The Silmarillion, as opposed to Q. olvar = “plants” (S/45). In a marginal note to a short document on Ents and Eagles from 1958-9 (or later), it was