Q. lanca n. “sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end” (Category: Edge)
A word for “sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end” in notes from the late 1960s derived from the root √(G)LAN “rim, edge, border, boundary” (VT42/8). Tolkien specified it could be used as:
... a cliff-edge, or the clean edge of things made by hand or built, also used in transferred senses, as in kuivie-lankasse, literally “on the brink of life”, of a perilous situation in which one is likely to fall into death.
Reference ✧ VT42/8 ✧ lanka “sharp edge (not of tools), sudden end”
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| √(G)LAN > lanka | [laŋka] | ✧ VT42/8 |