rō

root. *rise

roso-

verb. roso-

ros-sá

adjective. ros-sá

rotya-

verb. rotya-

roto

root. hollow

koro

root. be round, roll

oro

root. steepness, rising

pili

root. rob

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “rob”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. pili- “steal”, ᴱQ. pilu “thief, robber” and ᴱQ. pilwe “robbery, theft” (QL/74). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth retaining as the Neo-Eldarin basis for “theft” words. A possible later replacement might be the root √RAPH “seize, grab” from the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the early 1950s which had the derivative Q. arpo “seizer, thief” (PE19/89), but the verb form Q. raf- was glossed “wave, brandish”, so I don’t think it is suitable for a direct replacement.

þoro Reconstructed

root. eagle

komo

root. *ball, roll

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives having to do with spherical shapes and rolling, such as ᴱQ. kóma “ball” and ᴱQ. konta- “roll up, roll, pack” (QL/47). There are no signs of this root being used for this meaning in Tolkien’s later writing, and these senses seem to have been transferred to √KOR.

tol+u

root. *roll (up)

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. tolu- “roll up, furl” and ᴱQ. tolupe “roll, ball of wool” (QL/94). The words G. thol- “roll” and G. tholos “axle of a wheel” may be related, but if so would represent a shift of the root from ᴱ√TOL-U >> ✱ᴱ√ÞOL (GL/73). In later writings √ÞOL was instead the basis for “helmet” words (PE17/188).

tṛkṛ

root. *root

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. tarka “root” and ᴱQ. tarkele “great system of roots” (QL/94). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. tarc “root” and G. tricthon “(fibrous fine) root” (GL/69, 71). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

i

root. here it is, root of relatives

ma

root. root of indef[inite]

gwaṙa

root. rub

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “rub” (QL/103). There are no signs of it in Tolkien’s later writing.

hulu

root. strip

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “strip”, with derivatives in both Qenya and Gnomish such as ᴱQ. hulqa/G. hulc “naked” (QL/41; GL/49). It had a variant ᴱ√FULU which seems to have no derivatives (QL/38). There are quite a few later roots of similar meaning, so likely the root was abandoned.

sivi

root. [unglossed]

Unglossed roots in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants ᴱ√SIVI and ᴱ√SIWI and a single unglossed derivative ᴱQ. sivilda (QL/84). It is difficult to guess what Tolkien intended for these forms to mean, though they conceivably reemerged as the later roots ᴹ√SIW “excite, egg on, urge” (Ety/SIW) or √SIB “rest, quiet” (VT44/35).

saw̯a

root. [unglossed]

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/82), which may have reemerged as √SAWA “disgusting, foul, vile” in notes from the 1950s (PE17/172, 183).

tołᵂo

root. [unglossed]

An unglossed root in The Qenya Phonology of the 1910s illustrating a hypothetical series of ancient lateral approximants, with derived roots like ᴱ√TOLO and ᴱ√TOẆO [with ẇ = ɣʷ] (PE12/16). The former appeared in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon as the basis for island words (QL/94), but the latter appeared nowhere else in Early Qenya writings.

-yǝ

suffix. [unglossed]

aikwa

adjective. high, steep

am(u)

root. up(wards)

kasa

root. head

naða

root. *plain

swandǝ

noun. dog

toẇo

root. [unglossed]

fulu

root. strip

lepse

?. [unglossed]

lopse

?. [unglossed]

ou̯a

noun. the sea

teled-

noun. [unglossed]

tḷkḷ

root. [unglossed]

ukko

noun. rain

vala

root. VALA