Eldamo : Early Quenya : oronta

ᴱQ. oronta adj. and n. “steep; hill” (Category: Tall)

⚠️ᴱQ. oronta, adj. and n. “steep; hill” (Category: Tall): ᴹQ. aiqua “steep, ⚠️[ᴱQ.] tall; high, lofty, sublime; chief”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “steep” under the early root ᴱ√ORO¹ (QL/70). The contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa translated it as “steep, hill”, indicating it could function as a noun (PME/70).

References ✧ LT1A/Kalormë; PME/70; QL/70

Glosses

“steep” ✧ LT1A/Kalormë; QL/70
“steep, hill” ✧ PME/70

Derivations

< ᴱ√ORO¹ “steepness, rising” ✧ LT1A/Kalormë; QL/70

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√ORO¹ > oronta

[orontā] > [oronta]

✧ QL/70