Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : NAQA

ᴱ√NAQA root. “steal, take; get by stealth, unlawfully”

⚠️ᴱ√NAQA root. “steal, take; get by stealth, unlawfully”: ᴺ√PIL “rob”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “steal, take; get by stealth, unlawfully”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. nak (naq-) “anything stolen, a theft, a trick” and ᴱQ. naqar “thief” (QL/64). There are no signs of this root in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, but words like G. nig- “steal, creep, do or go by stealth” and G. nigla- “to thieve, pilfer” might be derived from a variant (GL/60); there is otherwise no *ᴱ√NIKI root appearing in the Qenya Lexicon. There are no signs of either of these roots in Tolkien’s later writing with these meaning; later √NIK means “small” (VT47/26; VT48/18).

Reference ✧ QL/64 ✧ “steal, take; get by stealth, unlawfully”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. nak “anything stolen, a theft, a trick” ✧ QL/64
> ᴱQ. naqa- “to steal” ✧ QL/64
- ⇒ ᴱQ. naqar “thief” ✧ QL/64
> G. nig- “to steal, creep, do or go by stealth”
- ⇒ G. nigrin “stealthy” ✧ GL/60
> G. nigla- “to thieve, pilfer”
> G. nig(la) “mouse”