lobor

noun. horse

lobor

noun. horse, [heavy riding] horse

A word for “horse” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from the root ᴹ√LOP (EtyAC/LOP). It did not appear in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne reported it in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT45/28).

Conceptual Development: The similar word G. lobros “steed, horse” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/54), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√LOPO that was the basis for “horse” words in the Qenya Lexicon (QL/56). In The Etymologies, Tolkien first gave the root as ᴹ√LOB and the Noldorin form as {lum >>} lhuv, perhaps from ✱lōbo, but these were deleted and replaced by ᴹ√LOP and lobor.

Neo-Sindarin: Since Tolkien sometimes described S. roch as a “swift horse”, I’d assume lobor was a heavy riding horse or war horse.

Changes

• lum → lhuv ✧ EtyAC/LOP
• lhuv → lobor “horse” ✧ EtyAC/LOP

Cognates

• ᴹQ. olombo “horse” ✧ EtyAC/LOP; EtyAC/LOP

Derivations

• ᴹ√LOP “horse, horse; [ᴱ√] *run (of animals), gallop, lope” ✧ EtyAC/LOP; EtyAC/LOP

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√LOP > lobor	[lopro] > [lopr] > [lobr] > [lobor]	✧ EtyAC/LOP

Variations

• lum ✧ EtyAC/LOP (lum)
• lhuv ✧ EtyAC/LOP (lhuv)

roch

noun. horse, swift horse for riding