S. roch n. “horse” (Category: Horse (generic))
The usual word for “horse” in Sindarin, a derivative of ✶rokkō (Let/282, 382) and very well attested. There are indications that this word was more specifically a “swift horse” (Let/382; EtyAC/ROK), but in most cases Tolkien used it generically.
Conceptual Development: The first precursor to this word seems to be G. brog “horse” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/24), though at the time it had no Qenya cognates. ᴱN. brog “horse” reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/139), but by The Etymologies of the 1930s it had become N. roch “horse”, already with the derivation given above (Ety/ROK; EtyAC/ROK). Tolkien seems to have mainly stuck with this form thereafter.
References ✧ Let/178, 282, 382; PE17/97; RC/241; SA/roch; UT/318
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Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ✶rokkō > roch | [rokkō] > [rokko] > [rokkʰo] > [roxxo] > [roxx] > [rox] | ✧ Let/282 |
N. roch n. “(swift) horse” (Category: Horse (generic))
References ✧ Ety/ROK; EtyAC/ROK
Glosses
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶rokkō > roch | [rokkō] > [rokko] > [rokkʰo] > [roxxo] > [roxx] > [rox] | ✧ EtyAC/ROK |
ᴱN. brog n. “horse” (Category: Horse (generic))
References ✧ PE13/139, 156
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| bogath | plural | ✧ PE13/139 | |
| #vrog | soft-mutation; t-mutation | “horse” | ✧ PE13/156 |
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G. brog n. “horse” (Category: Horse (generic))
References ✧ GG/9; GL/24, 64
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| vrog | soft-mutation; b-mutation | “horse” | ✧ GG/9 |
| #rog | suffix | ✧ GL/64 |
Element In