Eldamo : Middle Quenya : sulka

ᴹQ. sulka n. “root (especially as edible)” (Category: Root)

ᴹQ. sulca, n. “root (especially as edible)” (Category: Root): ᴱQ. ‽sulca “sticky, viscous”; ᴱQ. mólë “root”; ᴱQ. tarcelë “great system of roots”

A noun in The Etymologies from around 1937 glossed “root (especially as edible)” and derived from ᴹ√SULUK (Ety/SÚLUK).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. tarka “root” and ᴱQ. tarkele “great system of roots”, both derived from early ᴱ√TṚKṚ (QL/94). Their Gnomish cognate G. tarc was glossed “root (especially edible roots)” (GL/69). ᴹQ. turut (turuk-) “tree-stem” from the Declension of Nouns (DN) written in the early 1930s (PE21/35) might be a transitional form in between ᴱ√TṚKṚ and ᴹ√SULUK.

Reference ✧ Ety/SÚLUK ✧ “root (especially as edible)”

Element In

ᴺQ. !nastyapsul “turnip, (lit.) prickly/stingy/sharp tasting root”
ᴺQ. !rassulca “carrot”

Cognates

N. solch “root (especially as edible)” ✧ Ety/SÚLUK
ON. sulkha “root (especially as edible)” ✧ Ety/SÚLUK

Derivations

< ᴹ√SULUK “*root (especially as edible)” ✧ Ety/SÚLUK (SÚLUK)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√SÚLUK > sulka

[sulka]

✧ Ety/SÚLUK

ᴱQ. tarka n. “root” (Category: Root)

See ᴹQ. sulka for discussion.

References ✧ GL/69; QL/94

Glosses

“root” ✧ QL/94

Element In

ᴱQ. tarkele “great system of roots” ✧ QL/94

Cognates

G. tarc “root (especially edible roots)” ✧ GL/69

Derivations

< ᴱ√TṚKṚ “*root” ✧ GL/69 (tṛk); QL/94

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√tṛk > tarka	[tṛkā] > [tṛka] > [tarka]	✧ GL/69
ᴱ√TṚKṚ > tarka	[tṛkā] > [tṛka] > [tarka]	✧ QL/94