ho

root. shout, scream

hotyo

root. sneeze

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “sneeze”, with various Early Qenya derivatives of similar meaning (QL/41). Since there are no good later words meaning “sneeze”, I think it is worth retaining ᴱ√HOTYO as a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√HOT in order to salvage these Early Qenya sneeze-words.

hoso

root. *gather

hono

root. *heart

hotho

root. bind

aya

root. honour, revere

kḷpḷ

root. hold, contains (esp. of liquids)

roto

root. hollow

saχsōđa

noun. house of fire

sōđā

noun. house

aqa

root. grasp, hold

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s gloss “grasp, hold” (QL/31). Various later forms have similar meanings, making it unlikely this root remained valid.

foʒo

root. hide, hoard, store up, lay up in secret

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “hide, hoard, store up, lay up in secret” with derivatives like ᴱQ. foina “hidden, secret” and ᴱQ. foa “hoard, treasure” (QL/38). Gnomish derivatives also appear in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. fuin “secret, dark; hoarded” and G. fuis “hoard”, though there the root was given as foχo (GL/36); this is not a contradiction, since in QL the ancient voiceless spirant χ was represented with H in roots. One of the Qenya derivatives of this root, ᴱQ. foalóke “✱hoard dragon” reappeared much later as Q. foalóke with a new etymology where the first element meant “breath” (PE17/181). Thus this early root was likely abandoned.

tifi

root. *flute, hoot

An unglossed root ᴱ√TIFI appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. Timpinen and G. Tinfang (QL/92). These names were translated as “Fluter” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon along with other derivatives like G. tif- “whistle”, G. timp “hoot, note of a flute”, and G. timpi “a little bell” (GL/70). I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√TIPH “flute, hoot” to salvage some of these early words.

ekta

noun. thorn

nehe

root. *honey

tara

root. *horn

laqa

root. catch

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “catch”, contrasted with ᴱ√LAPA “enfold” and ᴱ√LṆQṆ “catch, come on, light on, find, get” (QL/51, 55). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, and it may have been replaced by ᴹ√GAT of similar meaning (Ety/GAT).

lefe

root. *heart

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the derivatives ᴱQ. lepsa “liver” and ᴱQ. elwen “heart” (QL/52). The Gnomish equivalent of the elwen “heart” was G. elf, revised to G. ilf (GL/32, 50). Tolkien used other words for “heart” in his later writings, but I think it is worth positing a root ᴺ√LEPH “liver” for purposes of Neo-Eldarin to retain ᴱQ. lepsa “liver”.

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).

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).

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.

uluku

root. wolf

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “wolf”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. ulku and G. ulug of the same meaning (QL/97). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien first gave G. ulug “wolf”, but this word’s gloss was revised to “dragon” as a cognate to ᴱQ. lōke (GL/74), and Tolkien added a new word G. urc “wolf” as an equivalent to harw. None of the later Elvish “wolf” words resemble either √ULUK- or √URUK-.

vṛtyṛ

root. serve

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “serve”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. vartyane “service” and ᴱQ. virti- “serve” (QL/102). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

kok Speculative

root. catch

A hypothetical root serving as the basis for early words like G. cog “claw, fist”, G. crog “hook” and G. croctha- “catch” (GL/27).

-yǝ

suffix. [unglossed]

haw-

verb. haw-

lepse

?. [unglossed]

lopse

?. [unglossed]

m(b)ṇðṇ

root. bind

mata

root. eat

mḷkḷ

root. possess

nele

root. point

skantá

noun. a blow with an axe

tegna

adjective. straight

teled-

noun. [unglossed]

toẇo

root. [unglossed]

ŋuarenđā

noun. family

vo(no) Reconstructed

root. son

ʒṛmṛ Reconstructed

root. *gather

tḷkḷ

root. [unglossed]