khat

root. hurl, cast, send through air, loose from hand

This root appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ᴱ√HATA “hurl, fling” (QL/39), and in this early period it had derivatives in both Qenya and Gnomish such as ᴱQ. hata- “hurl, fling” and G. hada- “throw at, aim at” (QL/39; GL/48). It appeared again in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√KHAT “hurl” with only Noldorin derivatives (Ety/KHAT), and appeared in a list of roots in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s with the gloss “hurl, cast, send through air, loose from hand but not nec[essarily] fast”, though the page where it appeared was rejected (PE22/127 note #152). Tolkien’s use of Q. hatal “spear” in writings from the late 1960s indicate its continued validity (VT49/14), as suggested by Patrick Wynne (VT49/33 note #15).

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. hat- “[ᴱQ.] to hurl, fling, *throw”
• ᴹQ. hat- “?to throw down” ✧ PE22/127
• Q. hatal “spear, spear, *javelin”
• ᴺQ. hatta “missile”
• N. had- “to hurl, to hurl, *fling; [G.] throw at, aim at” ✧ Ety/KHAT
• N. haglath “sling” ✧ Ety/KHAT
• N. hador “thrower (of spears and darts)” ✧ Ety/KHAT
• ᴺS. hant “throw, cast; turn or move in games”

Element in

• N. haglath “sling” ✧ Ety/LATH