ratta

noun. track

Cognates

• T. ratta “a track” ✧ NM/363

Derivations

• ✶ratta “a track” ✧ NM/363
  • √RAT “to find a way” ✧ NM/363

Element in

• ᴺQ. rattaraxa “tram, (lit.) track-wagon”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ratta > ratta	[ratta]	✧ NM/363

londa

path

[londa noun "path"], changed by Tolkien to londë noun "road (in sea)" (VT45:28)

opto

noun. back

tier

path

tier is, besides the pl. form of tië "path" above, an ephemeral word for "so", abandoned by Tolkien in favour of tambë (VT43:17)

pontë

back, rear

pontë (ponti-) noun "back, rear" (QL:75)

tië

path, course, line, direction, way

tië noun "path, course, line, direction, way" (TE3, VT47:11); pl. tier in Namárië(Nam, RGEO:67); tielyanna "upon your path" (UT:22 cf. 51; tie-lya-nna "path-your-upon")

catta

noun. back

A neologism for “back” coined by Paul Strack in 2022 specifically for Eldamo, based on Q. ca(ta) “behind, at back of place”. This word can refer to the back of body as well as the back of other things.

Elements

Word	Gloss
ca(ta)	“behind, at back of place, behind, at back of place; [ᴹQ.] after”

râd

noun. path, pass, path, pass, [N.] track

Derivations

• ᴹ√RAT “walk, go in a line (as a road), go in a line (as a road), walk”

Element in

• ᴺS. duidhrad “canal”
• S. imrad “path or pass between mountains or trackless forest, *(lit.) valley path” ✧ VT47/14

Variations

• rad ✧ VT47/14 (rad)

pad

track

_ n. _track, road (only of 'roads' or tracks unpaved in open country).

lond

noun. narrow path or strait

lond

noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven

lonn

noun. narrow path or strait

lonn

noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven

ad

back

(as prefix) ad-, also meaning "second, again, re-", e.g. aderthad "reunion".

ad

back

also meaning "second, again, re-", e.g. aderthad "reunion".

imrad

path

(between mountains, hills or through trackless forest) imrad (pass), pl. imraid.

imrad

path

(pass), pl. imraid.

râd

path

râd (track), construct rad, pl. raid (idh raidh).

râd

path

(track), construct rad, pl. raid (idh raidh).

râd

track

1) (path) râd, construct rad, pl. raid (idh raidh), 2) *ruin (slot, spoor, footprint), pl. rŷn (idh rŷn). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” ”rhoein” = rhöin, LR:364 s.v. __. Note: a homophone means ”blazing fire, red flame” and also ”fiery red, burning” as an adj.

râd

track

construct rad, pl. raid (idh raidh)

pada

walk

(i bada, i phadar)

bâd

pathway

(i vâd, construct bad) (beaten track), pl. baid (i maid).

ruin

track

(slot, spoor, footprint), pl. r**ŷn (idh r**ŷn). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” ”rhoein” = rhöin, LR:364 s.v. RUN. Note: a homophone means ”blazing fire, red flame” and also ”fiery red, burning” as an adj.

dan

back

(prep.) dan (lenited nan) (again, against);

dan

back

(lenited nan) (again, against);

fû Speculative

noun. path

Element in

• S. Fui ’Ngorthrim “Paths of the Dead” ✧ RC/526

rad

root. *back, return, [ᴹ√] back, return

This root first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√RAD “back, return” with derivatives like ᴹQ. randa/N. anrand “cycle, age (100 Valian Years)” as well as Dor. radhon “east” (Ety/RAD). It reappeared (unglossed) in Outline of Phonology (OP2) as an example of a root where medial d dissimilated to l in Quenya rather than becoming r as usual: √RAD > Q. ral- (PE19/99). Neither the root or the verb were glossed in OP2, so it is unclear whether or not it retained its 1930s meaning, though there is no reason to believe it didn’t.

Derivatives

• Q. ral- “*to return, to return (intransitive)” ✧ PE19/099
• ᴺQ. ralya- “to return (transitive)”
• ᴺS. radh- “to return (intransitive)”
• ᴺS. redhia- “*to return (transitive)”

khan

root. back

Derivatives

• Q. han- “*back as an answer or return by another agent” ✧ PE17/166

Variations

• KHAN ✧ PE17/157; PE17/166

tō/oto

root. back

A root in a discussion of prefixes for “back” from around 1959, which Tolkien specified as meaning: “back as an answer, or return by another agent to an action affecting him, as in answering, replying, avenging, requiting, repaying, rewarding”; Tolkien also considered the forms √UTU/TŪ (PE17/166). But Tolkien crossed this all through and seems to have replaced it with √KHAN. Tolkien mentioned the root √OT in a discussion of numbers from the late 1960s, but only to specify that “there was no primitive base OT-” (VT47/16).

Element in

• Q. tóquet- “to answer” ✧ PE17/166

Variations

• TŌ/OT(O) ✧ PE17/166 (TŌ/OT(O)); PE17/187 (TŌ/OT(O))
• OT ✧ PE17/167; VT47/16 (OT)
• OT(O) ✧ PE17/171 (OT(O))
• TŪ ✧ PE17/188 (TŪ)
• UTU/TŪ ✧ PE17/189 (UTU/TŪ)

râd

noun. path, track

ad-

prefix. back, again, re-

bâd

noun. beaten track, pathway

lond

noun. narrow path or strait

lond

noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven

lonn

noun. path

lhonn

noun. narrow path or strait

lonn

noun. narrow path or strait

lhonn

noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven

lonn

noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven