khan

root. understand, comprehend

Derivatives

• ᴹQ. handa “understanding, intelligent” ✧ Ety/KHAN
• ᴹQ. hande “knowledge, understanding” ✧ Ety/KHAN
• ᴹQ. hanya- “to understand, know about, be skilled in dealing with” ✧ Ety/KHAN
• N. hann “intelligent” ✧ Ety/BOR; Ety/KHAN
• N. henia- “to understand” ✧ Ety/KHAN

Element in

• ᴺS. gorchanui “complicated, enigmatic, cryptic, hard to understand”

tor

root. brother

Tolkien gave this root in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√TOR “brother” with derivatives like ᴹQ. toron and N. tôr of the same meaning (Ety/TOR). Hints of the roots continued use appear in the 1959 term Q. melotorni “love-brothers” for close male friends (NM/20). In notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien gave Q. háno and S. hanar as the words for “brother”, both from the root √KHAN. Nevertheless, I think it is worth retaining ᴹ√TOR to represent more abstract notions of “brotherhood” for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin, for “metaphorical” brothers as opposed to Q. háno/S. hanar for brothers by blood.

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. otornië “company, association, alliance”
• ᴹQ. toron “brother” ✧ Ety/THEL; Ety/TOR
• On. toron “brother” ✧ Ety/TOR
  • N. tôr “brother” ✧ Ety/TOR; Ety/TOR

Element in

• Q. melotorno “love-brother”
• ᴹQ. otorno “sworn brother, associate [m.]” ✧ Ety/WŌ
• On. wator “brother” ✧ Ety/TOR

Variations

• tor ✧ Ety/THEL