Primitive elvish
oro
root. up(wards); rise (up), go high, mount
rō/oro
root. up(wards); rise (up), go high, mount, up(wards); rise (up), go high, mount; [ᴹ√] high, [ᴱ√] steepness, rising
Derivatives
- ✶ōre “arising”
- ✶ornā “uprising, tall” ✧ PE17/112
- Q. orwa “high, lofty”
- ✶ornē “(straight) tree” ✧ Let/426
- ✶orta- “to rise, ascend” ✧ PE18/106; PE22/134
- ✶ortā- “to raise” ✧ PE18/089; PE18/106
- Q. orta- “to raise, cause to rise, lift (up)” ✧ PE22/159
- ✶orya- “to rise” ✧ PE22/134
- Q. orya- “to rise” ✧ PE22/157
- ᴺQ. oricon “heather”
- Q. oro “mount, mountain, hill” ✧ PE17/063
- ᴺQ. orosta “ascension”
- ᴺQ. orsa “upper, above”
- Q. orta- “to raise, cause to rise, lift (up)” ✧ Let/426; PE17/063; PE22/156
- Q. orta- “to rise” ✧ PE17/063
- Q. orto “mount, mountain, hill, [ᴹQ.] mountain-top; [Q.] mount, mountain” ✧ PE17/063
- Q. orya- “to rise” ✧ PE17/063; PE22/156; PE22/163
- S. orod “mountain” ✧ PE17/063
- ᴺS. orth “upper”
Element in
Variations
- OR/RO ✧ Let/426; NM/176; PE22/134
- OR/ORO ✧ PE17/063
- RŌ ✧ PE17/063; PE17/182
- OR/RŌ ✧ PE17/064; PE17/112; PE22/133
- OR/ORO/RŌ ✧ PE17/171
- or/ro ✧ PE18/088; VT48/25
- OR ✧ PE18/089; PE18/106; PE22/129; PE22/156; VT41/11; VT48/31 (
OR)- oro/ro ✧ PE22/163
- or- ✧ VT41/13
ambō
noun. hill
Derivations
- √AM “go up, go up, [ᴹ√] up”
Derivatives
- Q. ambo “hill, rising ground, mount” ✧ PE17/092
pū
noun. ‽
sisti
root. ‽
Derivatives
- ᴺQ. sistë “ulcer, sore, boil”
skā
noun. ‽
skū
noun. ‽
This invertible root had a long history in Tolkien’s writings. Its earliest iteration was in a pair of roots in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s: ᴱ√OŘO [OÐO] with derivatives having to do with the “dawn”, and ᴱ√ORO “steepness, rising” with which it was much confused (QL/70). The latter had derivatives like ᴱQ. orme “summit, crest, hilltop” and ᴱQ. orto- “raise” (QL/70), and Tolkien mentioned an inverted variant ᴱ√RŌ or ᴱ√ROHO with derivatives like ᴱQ. róna- “arise, rise, ascend” (QL/80). The contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon also gave it as in an invertible root ᴱ√rō-, oro with derivatives like G. oros “rising” and G. ront “high, steep” (GL/63, 66).
The root reappeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√ORO “up, rise, high” and ᴹ√RŌ “rise” (Ety/ORO, RŌ). The root was mentioned very frequently in his writings from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s, generally glossed “rise” or “up(wards)”. Thus the root was very well established in Tolkien’s mind.