#protocairn

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…Parakrekks are known to follow in the aftermath of destruction left by Protocairns, "cleaning up" the remains after Protocairns have created new landmasses. The Parakrekks species was created by the Makuta in order to take advantage of the inadvertent terraforming properties of the Protocairn species. Parakrekks typically move in and "round off the edges" of a newly created island structure, devouring any remnants of older structures/foliage/debris and preparing the landscape for re-use.

It has been suggested that Makuta Chirox was responsible for the creation of Parakrekks as an early prototype of the Visorak, which he developed later in the Eastern Corridor. This interpretation finds some support in the etymology of the name Parakrekks itself, as discussed below:

The name parakrekks appears to originate from Isolate Matoran (=Western Matoran) due to commonalities with the name-forms kyrehx (early IsMt.) and reysa (late IsMt.). The primary etymology of parakrekks is divided into two portions: parak- and rekks or krekks, from earlier *(ky)rekx "ocean, silver sea" (cf. kyrehx "ocean", reys(a) "expanse"). Parak- may itself derive from a compound assigned by the Makuta, as was common with early Rahiforms. Under this analysis, parak- is to be analyzed as a Southern Matoran form originating from earlier ?barak, either an abbreviation of *ba-dax "creature of balance/order" (with intervocalic d > r, as in the element -rak of viso-rak) or simply as a reduction/simplification of bohrok with a sense of "cleaner". Hence, parak-rekks can be analyzed as "aquatic cleaner/creature of balance", with the element (k)rekks assigned by Matoran in reference to the amphibious nature of the Rahi.

Another etymological analysis has been proposed drawing up the relation between the Protocairn and Parakrekks species and dispensing with the idea of a Makuta-assigned name, as follows:

The name Parakrekks may itself be based upon a Southern Matoran dialectal version of the word protocaer(n) (the origin of the human-language anglicized form "Protocairn"), originally a borrowing into Old Matoran from Praetar. Under this analysis, proto-caer(n) takes the form para-crae(n) in early Southern Matoran (cf. also -par in the name Carapar, also from SMt.), with dax "creature, titan" appended, as was common in the designations of non-Matoran species, followed by intervocalic d > r: *paracraerax > *parakraex > parakrekks "Protocairn-creature".