Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : BAT

ᴹ√BAT root. “tread”

ᴹ√BAT root. “tread”: ?ᴱ√BATA “*build”

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “tread”, with the derivatives in both (Middle) Quenya and Noldorin having to do with walking, trampling and paths (Ety/BAT). It may have been replaced by later root √PAT with various path and walking derivatives (PE17/34), or the two might have coexisted as light (√PAT) and heavy (√BAT) variants.

Reference ✧ Ety/BAT ✧ “tread”

*√PAT “*step, walk” may be a replacement or variant of BAT “tread”

Derivatives

> Ad. *bat- “to walk”
- ⇒ Ad. batân “road, path, way”
  - ⇒ 4 compounds
> ᴹ✶batā̆ “beaten track, pathway” ✧ Ety/BAT
- > ON. bata “beaten track, pathway” ✧ Ety/BAT
  - > N. bâd “beaten track, pathway” ✧ Ety/BAT
    - ⇒ ᴺS. !talvad “footpath”
> ᴹ✶battā “trample” ✧ Ety/BAT
- > ON. battha- “to trample” ✧ Ety/BAT
  - > N. batha- “to trample” ✧ Ety/BAT
> ᴹQ. vanta “walk” ✧ Ety/BAT
> ᴹQ. vanta- “to walk” ✧ Ety/BAT
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !tervanta- “to traverse”
> ᴺQ. !vatta- “to trample”
- ⇒ ᴺQ. !etevatta- “to trample out”
> ON. bat- ✧ Ety/BAT
- > N. *bad- “*to tread, travel” ✧ Ety/BAT
  - ⇒ N. #govad- “to meet”
  - ⇒ N. #trevad- “to traverse” ✧ Ety/BAT
  - ⇒ ᴺS. !bannen “gone”
- ⇒ ON. trebat- “to traverse” ✧ Ety/BAT
  - > N. #trevad- “to traverse”