rok

root. run on foot, *horse, run on foot

This root was the basis for Elvish “horse” words starting in the 1930s. It first appeared as unglossed ᴹ√ROK in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the derivatives ᴹQ. rokko/N. roch “horse” (Ety/ROK). The root was given the gloss “run on foot” in a page of roots from the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s, but that page was rejected. Primitive ✶rokkō “horse” was mentioned regularly in Tolkien’s later writing (Let/282; PE21/82; WJ/407), though in one place he clarified that it was more specifically a “swift horse for riding” (Let/382).

Derivatives

• ✶rokkē “mare”
  • ᴺQ. roccë “mare”
• ✶rokkō “horse, swift horse for riding”
  • Q. rocco “horse” ✧ Let/282; Let/382; WJ/407
  • S. roch “horse” ✧ Let/282; Let/382
• ᴹ✶rokkō “swift horse” ✧ Ety/ROK
  • ᴹQ. rokko “(swift) horse” ✧ EtyAC/ROK
  • N. roch “(swift) horse” ✧ EtyAC/ROK
• ᴹQ. rokko “(swift) horse” ✧ Ety/ROK; PE22/127
• ᴺQ. rocollë “colt”
• ᴹQ. rohta- “?to run on foot” ✧ PE22/127
• N. roch “(swift) horse” ✧ Ety/ROK
• ᴺS. rogol “saddle”

Element in

• ᴺS. regil “mare”

Variations

• ROKO ✧ PE22/127 (ROKO)