NEK
From Tolkien Gateway
NEK is an Elvish root, with two different meanings.
NEK1
Meaning: "deprive"[1]:167, "divide, part, separate"[2]
- Quenya: nehta- "deprive"; nehtanō "one deprived, exile whose rights and goods have been confiscated"; -enca and nec- "without, -less"
- Sindarin: neithan (cognate of nehtanō)
NEK2
Meaning: "narrow"[3]
- Common Eldarin: nek-tē
Compounds:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson)
- ↑ Vinyar Tengwar, Number 47, February 2005, p. 16
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields", p. 282