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Early Primitive Elvish

boðo

root. *gate, door

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s that was the basis for Early Qenya words for “gate” and “door” (QL/75). It was first given as (rejected) ᴱ√PONO but this was changed to ᴱ√BOÐO (with b- > p- as it did in Early Qenya) whereupon Tolkien gave its Gnomish equivalent as Bon. However, there are no words in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon beginning with bon- that have any similar meaning, indicating Tolkien probably abandoned this root very early.

Changes

  • PONO → BOÐO ✧ QL/075

Derivatives

  • Eq. pondo “gate” ✧ QL/075
  • Eq. posta “door” ✧ QL/075

Variations

  • PONO ✧ QL/075 (PONO)
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/075] Group: Eldamo. Published by