norta-

verb. to ride, [lit.] make run (specially used of riding horses or other animals)

A verb for “ride” in notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s as a causative verb based on the root √NOR “run”, thus more literally “make run, specially used of riding horses or other animals” (PE17/168). As examples of its use, Tolkien gave the phrases nortanen “I rode” and onortanen rokko “I rode a horse”. The function of the prefix o- in the latter phrase isn’t entirely clear, but Vyacheslav Stepanov suggested it might be o- “together”, so that “I rode a horse = I made a horse run together [with me]”. If so, it may be the case that o- is used when the verb has a direct object (onortanyes “I ride [together with] it”) and is omitted when the verb has no object (nortal sí “you ride now”).

Conceptual Development: See the entry for ᴱQ. lehta- “ride” for a discussion of earlier “ride” verbs.

norta-

make run, specially used of riding horses or other animals

norta- vb. (1) "make run, specially used of riding horses or other animals", onortanen rocco "I rode a horse", nortanen "I rode" (with ellipsis of object; the prefix o- must apparently be included if the animal one rides on is mentioned as a direct object) (PE17:168)

norta-

verb. to stay

A neologism for “stay” created by Helge Fauskanger in PPQ (PPQ) from the early 2000s, inspired by N. dortha-.