ris

root. slash, rip

risse-

noun. a ravine

rista-

verb. cut

kiris

root. cut

rō/oro

root. rise, up, high

oro

root. rise, up, high

orta-

verb. to rise

am

root. up

ortā-

verb. to raise

srō

root. east

A root appearing in a rejected page of roots from the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s (PE22/127), possibly as a variant of √RŌ/ORO that Tolkien introduced to explain S. rhûn “east” after he decided initial r- did not become rh- in Noldorin/Sindarin; see the entry on S. rhûn for discussion.

lag

root. *cut

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the derivatives ᴹQ. lango “broad sword; prow of a ship” and N. lhang “cutlass, sword” (Ety/LAG), so probably meaning something like “✱cut”.

lisge

noun. reed

nyol

root. ring

tārī

noun. queen