assa

hole, perforation, opening, mouth

assa "hole, perforation, opening, mouth" (GAS)

ecca

hole

ecca ("k")noun "hole", apparently associated with Sindarin torech "secret hole, lair" (PE17:188)

latta

hole, pit

latta (1) noun "hole, pit" (DAT/DANT, VT45:8)

unquë

hole, hollow

unquë noun "hole, hollow" (VT46:20, UNUK), also name of tengwa #16 _(Appendix E; there spelt unque, while the Etymologies has unqe)_

ondomillo

noun. petrol, petroleum, gasoline, gas

A neologism for “petrol, petroleum, gasoline, gas” coined by Röandil in 2021 on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) as a combination of ondo “stone” and [ᴱQ.] millo “oil”. It has a shorter variant ondomil.

Elements

Word	Gloss
ondo	“stone (as a material), (large mass of) rock”
millo	“oil”

torech

hole

torech (i dorech, o thorech) (lair, excavation), pl. terich (i therich) for archaic törich.

torech

hole

(i dorech, o thorech) (lair, excavation), pl. terich (i therich) for archaic törich.

gass

hole

(i ’ass, construct gas) (gap), pl. gais (i ngais = i ñais)

dath

hole

1) dath (i dhath) (pit, steep fall, abyss), pl. daith (i naith) (VT45:8), 2) gass (i **ass, construct gas) (gap), pl. gais (i ngais** = i ñais), 3)

dath

hole

(i dhath) (pit, steep fall, abyss), pl. daith (i naith) (VT45:8)

tess

fine pierced hole

(i dess, construct tes), pl. tiss (i thiss). Archaic ters *(VT46:18)*****

gas

root. *warmth

as

root. warmth

A root appearing in several sets of etymological notes from 1957 glossed “warmth” and forming the basis for Q. árë “sunlight, warmth” (PE17/148). This is further supported by the archaic form †ázë for this word (LotR/1123), with intervocalic [s] > [z] > [r] as usual. The form Âs was also mentioned as an ancient name for the Sun in some Silmarillion notes (MR/380). At one point Tolkien connected this root to S. Asfaloth which he translated as “Sunlit Foam” (PE17/18); he then rejected this derivation saying the root form was actually √GAS, but since the ancient form was given as √AS in several other places, perhaps he changed his mind.

Derivatives

• ✶áse “sunlight” ✧ PE17/018
  • Q. árë “sunlight, warmth (especially of the sun); day” ✧ PE17/018
• Q. árë “sunlight, warmth (especially of the sun); day” ✧ PE17/148; PE17/148; SA/arien; VT43/18
• Q. Arien “Maiden of the Sun” ✧ SA/arien
• Q. arma “ray of sunlight” ✧ PE17/148
• Q. asta- “to heat, bake (by exposure to sun)” ✧ PE17/148
• ᴺS. ast “light or heat of the sun, *warmth”
• S. ast “light or heat of the sun”

Variations

• Âs ✧ MR/380; MRI/Âs
• Asa ✧ MRI/Asa
• GAS ✧ PE17/018; PE17/153
• AS- ✧ PE17/145
• AS ✧ PE17/148; PE17/148; VT43/18
• as- ✧ SA/arien

ekka

noun. hole

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. ecca “hole, *lair”

Element in

• S. torech “lair, (secret) hole, excavation” ✧ PE17/188

gas

noun. hole, gap

gas

noun. hole, gap

Cognates

• ᴹQ. assa “hole, perforation, opening, mouth” ✧ Ety/GAS

Derivations

• ᴹ✶gassā “hole, gap” ✧ Ety/GAS
  • ᴹ√GAS “yawn, gape” ✧ Ety/GAS

Element in

• S. Mengas Dûr “?Dark Gap in the Way”
• N. gasdil “stopgap” ✧ Ety/GAS

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶gassā > gas	[gassā] > [gassa] > [gass]	✧ Ety/GAS

dath

noun. hole, pit, steep fall, abyss

ters

noun. (fine pierced) hole

tess

noun. (fine pierced) hole

torech

noun. hole, excavation, lair