Eldamo : Early Quenya : naiko

ᴱQ. naiko adv. “*sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness)

⚠️ᴱQ. naico, adv. “*sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness): Q. #engwa “sickly”

An adverbial form of ᴱQ. naika “stricken ill, sick” (PE16/75), hence meaning “*sickly”. It appeared in the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem from around 1930 (MC/221).

References ✧ MC/221; PE16/60-62, 72, 74-75, 77

Variations

naiko ✧ MC/221; PE16/62; PE16/74; PE16/75; PE16/77
noiko ✧ PE16/60
naika ✧ PE16/61
näikö ✧ PE16/72

Changes

naika >> noiko ✧ PE16/61

Elements

naika²

“stricken ill, sick”

adverbial

✧ PE16/75

Element In

ᴱQ. kildo kirya noiko ✧ PE16/60
ᴱQ. taitelúmen san tollanta ranka naiko lunganár “*the firmament then leans sickly on broken hill[s]” ✧ PE16/77
ᴱQ. telumen tollanta naiko lunganar “the vault of heaven sagged upon the tops of the hills” ✧ MC/221; PE16/62; PE16/72; PE16/74