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Q. rotto n. “small grot, tunnel” (Category: Cave)

Q. rotto, n. “tunnel, small grot, [ᴹQ.] cave” (Category: Cave)
ᴱQ. sampë “cave, hollow”

A word glossed “tunnel, small grot” derived from the root √s-rot (PM/365 note #56), appearing in 1959 notes discussing the origin of the name of Felagund, which in that document based on a Khuzdul name. The English word “grot” is an archaic form of “grotto”, referring to a cave.

Conceptual Development: There are a number of similar “cave” words in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from ᴱ√ROTO “hollow”, including ᴱQ. orot, ᴱQ. rótele, and ᴱQ. rotl, the last of these glossed “cave, hollow” with a deleted variant {rotta >> rotto} (QL/71, 80). This last word also appeared as ᴱQ. rotl “grot” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/80). ᴹQ. rotto “cave, tunnel” appeared under the root ᴹ√ROT “bore, tunnel”, a late entry to The Etymologies of the 1930s (EtyAC/ROT). This root reappeared as the basis for “cave” words a number of places in later writings (PE17/183; VT39/9; WJ/414-415), but the only later mention of rotto is the aforementioned 1959 note on Felagund, given above.

Reference ✧ PM/365 ✧ “a small grot or tunnel”

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rot/s-rot > rotto [rotto] ✧ PM/365

ᴹQ. rotto n. “cave, tunnel” (Category: Cave)

See Q. rotto for discussion.

Reference ✧ EtyAC/ROT ✧ “cave, tunnel”

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ᴹ√ROT > rotto [rotto] ✧ EtyAC/ROT

ᴱQ. orot n. “cave” (Category: Cave)

See Q. rotto for discussion.

References ✧ QL/71, 80

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orotsi plural ✧ QL/71

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ᴱ√roto- > orot [orot] ✧ QL/71

ᴱQ. rótele n. “cave” (Category: Cave)

See Q. rotto for discussion.

References ✧ LT2A/Rothwarin; QL/80

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ᴱ√ROTO > rōtele [rōtelē] > [rōtele] ✧ QL/80

ᴱQ. rotl n. “cave, hollow, grot” (Category: Cave)

See Q. rotto for discussion.

References ✧ PME/80; QL/80

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ᴱ√ROTO > rotl [rotlǝ] > [rotl] > [rotḷ] > [rotḷ] ✧ QL/80