Primitive elvish

tō/oto

root. back

A root in a discussion of prefixes for “back” from around 1959, which Tolkien specified as meaning: “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). But Tolkien crossed this all 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).

Element in

  • Q. tóquet- “to answer” ✧ PE17/166

Variations

  • TŌ/OT(O) ✧ PE17/166 (TŌ/OT(O)); PE17/187 (TŌ/OT(O))
  • OT ✧ PE17/167; VT47/16 (OT)
  • OT(O) ✧ PE17/171 (OT(O))
  • ✧ PE17/188 ()
  • UTU/TŪ ✧ PE17/189 (UTU/TŪ)
Primitive elvish [PE17/166; PE17/167; PE17/171; PE17/187; PE17/188; PE17/189; VT47/16] Group: Eldamo. Published by

khan

root. back

Derivatives

  • Q. han- “*back as an answer or return by another agent” ✧ PE17/166

Variations

  • KHAN ✧ PE17/157; PE17/166
Primitive elvish [PE17/157; PE17/166] Group: Eldamo. Published by