Q. #caraxë n. “*jagged hedge of spikes” (Category: Physical World (other))
A word for a “jagged hedge of spikes” (Ety/KARAK), most notably used as an element in the name Helcaraxë, loosely translated as “Grinding Ice” (S/134; Ety/KARAK).
Conceptual Development: A similar form ᴱQ. karkasse or karkaras (karkarass-) “row of spikes or teeth” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as an elaboration of ᴱQ. karka “fang, tooth” (QL/48), and ᴱQ. karkasse “row of teeth” appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/48). ᴹQ. karakse “jagged hedge of spikes” emerged in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√KARAK “sharp fang, spike, tooth” (Ety/KARAK).
References ✧ NM/351; S/134
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ᴹQ. karakse n. “jagged hedge of spikes” (Category: Physical World (other))
Reference ✧ Ety/KARAK ✧ “jagged hedge of spikes”
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| ᴹ√KÁRAK > karakse | [karakse] | ✧ Ety/KARAK |
ᴱQ. karkasse n. “row of spikes or teeth” (Category: Physical World (other))
References ✧ LT2A/Karkaras; PME/48; QL/48
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| karkarass- | stem | ✧ QL/48 |
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| karka | “fang, tooth, tusk” | ✧ LT2A/Karkaras; QL/48 |
| #-sse² | “abstract noun” | ✧ QL/48 (#-sse) |
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