war, hostility
Quenya
ohta
war
ohta
noun. war
Derivations
Element in
- Q. ma caruvalwë ohta “shall we make war” ✧ PE22/161
- Q. ohtar “warrior”
- Q. vá caruvalwë (ohta) “we will not (make war)” ✧ PE22/161
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶ok(h)ta > ohta [okʰta] > [oktʰa] > [okta] > [oxta] ✧ PE18/085
ohta
noun. war
ohta
noun. war
ohta noun "war" (OKTA, KOT > KOTH). In the pre-classical Tengwar system presupposed in the Etymologies, ohta was also the name of tengwa #15 (VT46:7), but Tolkien would later call this letter anca instead changing its value from ht to nc.