Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : LOTO

?ᴱ√LOTO root.

⚠️?ᴱ√LOTO root.

A hypothetical root serving as the basis for the words G. glod “gullet, throat” and G. loda- “swallow, gulp down” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/40, 54). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Derivatives

> G. glod “gullet, throat”
- ⇒ G. glonta- “to swallow, gulp, devour” ✧ GL/40
> G. loda- “to swallow, gulp down”