gor

noun. vigour

gor

root. violence, impetus, haste

gorom

root. GOROM

An unglossed and deleted root in The Etymologies of the 1930s, an extension of ᴹ√GOR that provided an etymology for ᴹQ. Orome (EtyAC/GÓROM). After the rejection of this root, ᴹQ. Orome was redefined as a derivative of ᴹ√(O)ROM “loud noise, horn blast”.

gor-ngoroth

place name. deadly fear

ñgoroth

root. horror

ken

root. spearhead, gore

A rejected (Noldorin-only?) root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “spearhead, gore” (EtyAC/KEN).

snas

root. *gore, triangle

snat

root. *gore, triangle

gos

root. dread

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “dread” with two variations: ᴹ√GOS and ᴹ√GOTH (Ety/GOS). It was an element in quite a few names in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, such as ᴹQ. Mandos “Dread Imprisoner” (Ety/MBAD), ᴹQ. Osse (Ety/GOS), N. Gothmog (Ety/MBAW), N. Tauros “Forest-Dread” (Ety/TÁWAR), and N. Dor-Daideloth “Land of the Shadow of Dread” (LR/405), the last of these containing N. deloth “abhorrence, detestation, loathing” = ᴹ√DYEL + ᴹ√GOTH (Ety/DYEL).

In Tolkien’s later writings, many of these names were given new forms or etymologies: Q. Mandos “Castle of Custody” = mando + osto (MR/350); Q. Ossë as an adaptation of his Valarin name Oš(o)šai (WJ/400); S. Tauron “Forester” (PM/358). This calls into question whether ᴹ√GOS or ᴹ√GOTH survived as a root. It does have a few useful derivatives for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin, however, such as N. gosta- “fear exceedingly”.

kor

root. round

arʒā

noun/adjective. dread

glisi

noun. honey

il

root. all

kornā

adjective. round, globed

wanwē

noun. death

angosse

noun. horror

doron

root. oak

gaisrā

adjective. dreadful

gayas

root. fear

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fear” (Ety/GÁYAS). One of its derivatives, N. gaer “dreadful” (< ᴹ✶gaisrā), was given a new etymology in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60, where S. gaer “awful, fearful” was derived from ✶gairā (WJ/400). However, it is conceivable that √GAYAS could have survived as an extension of the later root √GAY “astound, make aghast”.

lis

root. honey

morókō

noun. bear

pheleg

root. cave

rǭda

noun. cave