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Early Quenya

osto

noun. gates of the Sun

A word for “the gates of the Sun” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√OŘO [OÐO], also the basis for ᴱQ. ōre “dawn”; Tolkien considered transferring it to the root ᴱ√OSO, the basis for wall and town words (QL/70-71).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√OÐO “*dawn” ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/070

Element in

  • Eq. Ostor “the East, the Sun when she issues from her white gates” ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/071

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√OŘO > osto[oðtō] > [oðto] > [ozto] > [osto]✧ QL/070
Early Quenya [LT1A/Oromë; QL/071] Group: Eldamo. Published by