Q. raica adj. “crooked” (Category: Crooked)
A word for “crooked” derived from √RIK “twist” appearing in notes associated with the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 (VT39/7, 9). ᴹQ. raika also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the glosses “crooked, bent, wrong” under the root ᴹ√RAYAK (Ety/RÁYAK). It appeared in its (1930s-style) plural form raikar in various versions of the Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s in the phrase ilya sí maller raikar “now all roads (are) bent” (LR/47; LR/56; SD/310).
Note that The Etymologies of the 1930s also had ᴹQ. téra “straight, right” (Ety/TEƷ). So it seems Quenya used the metaphor “straight = right” and “crooked = wrong” (at least in the 1930s).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had similar forms ᴱQ. pere̜qa “crooked” and ᴱQ. perqa “wrong” (QL/73).
References ✧ VT39/7, 9
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| ✶raika > raika | [raika] | ✧ VT39/7 |
| ✶raika > raika | [raika] | ✧ VT39/9 |
ᴹQ. raika adj. “crooked, bent, wrong” (Category: Crooked)
References ✧ Ety/RÁYAK; LR/47, 56; SD/310
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| raikar | plural | “bent” | ✧ LR/47; LR/56; SD/310 |
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| ᴹ√RÁYAK > raika | [raika] | ✧ Ety/RÁYAK |
ᴱQ. pereqa adj. “crooked” (Category: Crooked)
Reference ✧ QL/73 ✧ Pere̜qa “crooked”