Eldamo : Neo-Primitive Elvish : OKH

[ᴱ]ᴺ√OKH root. “*egg”

[ᴱ]ᴺ√OKH root. “*egg”

See ᴱ√OHO¹ for discussion.

Derivatives

> ᴺQ. ohtë “egg”
> ᴺS. och “egg”
> ᴺS. ^oetha- “to lay eggs, nest”

ᴱ√OHO¹ root. “*egg”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. ohte “egg” and ᴱQ. oi “bird, hen”; Tolkien speculated it was in fact the same root as ᴱ√OHO² “cry” (QL/69). G. och “egg” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon is clearly related (GL/62), and probably also G. uil “hen” and G. uitha- “lay eggs, nest” given than they appear adjacent to uith “eggs”, the plural of och (GL/74). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth retaining in Neo-Eldarin as ᴺ√OKH.

Reference ✧ QL/69

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. ohte “egg” ✧ QL/69
> ᴱQ. oi “bird, hen” ✧ QL/69
> G. och “egg”
> G. uil “hen”
- ⇒ G. porogwil “hen” ✧ GL/74
> G. uitha- “to lay eggs, nest”