pṇtṇ

root. open, spread out, show

Derivatives

• Eq. apanta- “to open, reveal, show, display” ✧ QL/034
• Eq. panta “open, wide, spreading” ✧ QL/072
• Eq. panta- “to open, unfold, spread” ✧ QL/072
• Eq. patsima “wide open” ✧ QL/072

Variations

• PATA² ✧ QL/034; QL/072

pṣt-

verb. spit

Derivatives

• Eq. pist- “to spit” ✧ PE13/163; PE14/058
• En. hist- “to spit” ✧ PE13/147

Variations

• pisti- ✧ PE12/003
• pst- ✧ PE13/147
• pṣt ✧ PE14/058

pḷtyḷ

root. *strike, flat of hand

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. paltya “flat of hand” and ᴱQ. pilty- “strike, esp. with flat hand” (QL/74). It later writings words for the flat of the hand were derived from √PAL: Q. palta and S. plad, probably a partial restoration of this early root (VT47/8).

Changes

• PḶTḶ → PḶT͡YḶ ✧ QL/074

Derivatives

• Eq. paltya “flat of hand, palm of hand” ✧ QL/074
• Eq. pilt “blow, cuff, box on ear” ✧ QL/074
• Eq. pilty- “to strike (esp. with flat hand)” ✧ QL/074

Variations

• pḷtyḷ ✧ QL/072
• PḶT͡YḶ ✧ QL/074
• PḶTḶ ✧ QL/074 (PḶTḶ)

pṛtṛ Reconstructed

root. judge

A hypothetical root explaining words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such G. pridu- “decide” and G. pridwir “judge” (GL/64). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

• G. pridu- “to decide”
• G. pridwen “judgment”
• G. pridwir “judge”
• G. prind “distinction”