pata- vb. "walk" (PE17:34)
Quenya
pata-
verb. to walk, to walk, *stroll; [ᴱQ.] to rap, tap (of feet)
pata-
verb. walk
cata
after
ala
after, beyond
ala (5) prep. "after, beyond" (MC:221, 214; however, LotR-style Quenya has han and pella "beyond" and apa "after")
apa
after
apa (1) prep. "after" (VT44:36), attested as a prefix in apacenyë and Apanónar, q.v. Variant ep- in epessë, q.v.; see epë for futher discussion. (According to VT44:36, apa was glossed "after" and also "before" in one late manuscript, but both meanings were rejected.) See also apa # 2 below. For Neo-Quenya purposes, apa should probably be ascribed the meaning "after", as in our most widely-published sources (compare Apanónar, "the After-born", as a name of Men in the Silmarillion). Variants pa, pá (VT44:36), but like apa these are also ascribed other meanings elsewhere; see separate entry. Apo (VT44:36) may be yet another variant of the word for "after".
apo
after
apo prep. ?"after" (see apa #1) (VT44:36)
appa-
verb. touch
appa- vb. "touch" (in the literal sense; contrast #ap-, q.v.) (VT44:26)
epe
after
ratta
noun. track
A noun for a “track” appearing in a 1968 essay, which Tolkien described as follows:
> Both Quenya and Lindarin [Telerin] also possessed a word ratta, which might be a derivative (by lengthening the medial consonant, a frequent device in Primitive Eldarin) from either ✱rattha [from RATH “climb”] or ✱ratta from the stem RAT [“find a way”] and in senses seems to be a blend of both. It meant ‘a track’; though often applied to ways known to mountaineers, to passes in the mountains and the climbing ways to them, it was not confined to ascents. It could be used of tracks across a marshland, or trails (blazed or sometimes marked by guide-stones) in forests (NM/363).
Thus Q./T. ratta seems to have applied to any “track” through the wilderness (not necessarily one that climbs) as a derivative of √RAT “find a way”, as opposed to S. rath “(climbing) track or street” that was more influenced by √RATH “climb”; see that entry for discussion.
sarë
noun. ford
A word for “ford” implied by name Q. Mondósaresse “in Oxford” from 1972 (DTS/70). It is almost certainly based on √THAR, from which S. athrad “ford” is also derived.
Conceptual Development: The entry for the early root ᴱ√TARA in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. tarna “crossing, passage, ford” as an element in ᴱQ. Taruktarna “Oxford” (QL/89). Tarna was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the glosses “passage, ford” (PME/89).
vanta
walk
vanta (2) noun "walk" (BAT)
A verb appearing in notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings glossed “walk”, equivalent to S. pad- of similar meaning (PE17/34).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. pata- “to rap, tap (of feet)”, derived from the early root ᴱ√PATA which mostly had to do with rattling and clattering, but it did have a derivative ᴱQ. patinka “shoe, slipper” having to do with feet (QL/72).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would interpret this verb to mean “continuously stepping”, so meaning “walk” when moving forward but also “rap, tap (of feet)” when standing still. For clarity the second meaning may include a reference to “feet”, as in i elda patane talya “the elf rapped/tapped his/her foot”. As for the sense “walk”, I would use pata- mainly in the sense of a casual walk = “✱stroll”. For a longer, more serious walk I would use [ᴹQ.] vanta- “walk, ✱trudge, trek”.