Primitive elvish
sot
root. shelter, protect, defend
Derivatives
- ᴺQ. sótë “refuge”
Element in
- ✶ostō “fortress or stronghold” ✧ WJ/414
Variations
- soto ✧ WJ/414
kaw
root. shelter
Derivatives
- ✶kawa “shelter, house” ✧ PE17/108; VT47/35
- Q. cöa “house; outhouse, shed, hut, booth; building used for a dwelling or other purposes; †body” ✧ PE17/108; VT47/35
- ✶kā “home, house” ✧ VT47/35
- Q. cöa “house; outhouse, shed, hut, booth; building used for a dwelling or other purposes; †body” ✧ PE17/107; PE17/164
Element in
- Q. cauma “protection, shelter, shield” ✧ PE17/108
Variations
- KAWA ✧ PE18/082
- kāw(ɜ) ✧ VT47/35
This root was primarily used as the basis for the word Q. coa “house”, which first appeared (without the root) in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 (WJ/369). The root √KAW “shelter” appeared in various etymological notes from the mid-to-late 1960s (PE17/107-108, 164; VT47/35). The root √KAWA also appeared in the 2nd version of the Tengwesta Qenderinwa written around 1950, but there it was unglossed and had no glossed derivatives, so whether it meant “shelter” in the early 1950s is unclear.
The only published root with form similar to √KAWA prior to 1950 is ᴱ√KAẆA “stoop” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/45), also appearing as kava- or cava- in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/25, 27). The Ẇ is Tolkien’s usual representation of derivatives of ancient labialized velar spirants [ɣʷ] or [xʷ] (PE12/15-16). The derivatives of this root included words like ᴱQ. kauko/G. caug “humpback” and ᴱQ. kawa-/G. cam(m)a- “bow”, so it seems to have no connection to later √KAW other than its similarity in form.