rē

noun. single item take out of a (long) series

-rē

suffix. -rē

nōrē

noun. kindred, race

taurē

noun. forest

tō/oto

root. back

The earliest appearance of this root was ᴹ√TOTO- “repeat” from Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/109). The root appeared as √TŌ/OTO in a discussion of prefixes for “back” from around 1959, where Tolkien specified its meaning as “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). In this 1959 note Tolkien crossed √TŌ/OTO 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).

-(a)rē

suffix. abstract noun

(a)tata

cardinal. two

atata

root. two, two; [ᴹ√] again, back

atatya

adjective. double

atta

cardinal. two

khan

root. back

lairē

noun. *summer

ndorē

noun. land

ndōro

noun. land

tata

masculine name. Two

yenā

adjective. female