Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LAKA

*ᴱ√LAKA root. “*pick (up)”

⚠️*ᴱ√LAKA root. “*pick (up)”: √KHOT¹ “gather, together in confusion, jumble”; √LEP “pick up/out (with the fingers); finger”

A hypothetical root serving as the basis for words in the Gnomish Lexicon such as G. lag- “gather up, pick up, get” and G. lanc “chance; pick, choice, selection” (GL/52). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. lactha- “(tr.) gather together, collect, amass”
> G. lag- “to gather up, pick up, get”
> G. lanc “chance; pick, choice, selection”
> G. lôg “fuel, firewood”