A root appearing in a list of Sindarin words placed with Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959, given as √REÞ or √RES “remain in same place, hence be unmoved, patient”. It had the derivatives S. andreth “patience”, which appeared elsewhere as the name of a Bëorian woman (MR/305), and S. Arodreth “Noble Endurance”, a name appearing nowhere else. The variant √RES may have been intended to be the Quenya form.
Quenya
retto
noun. *climber
Cognates
- S. reth “*climber” ✧ PE17/182
Derivations
- √RET “climb” ✧ PE17/182
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √RETE > retto [retto] ✧ PE17/182
often in names. >> andreth, Arodreth