Eldamo : Neo-Primitive Elvish : DOT

[ᴱ]^ᴺ√DOT root. “drop, ⚠️fall”

[ᴱ]^ᴺ√DOT root. “drop, ⚠️fall”

See ᴱ√ÐOTO for discussion.

^DOT “drop, ⚠️fall” could be a variant of √DAT “fall down, fall to ground”

Derivatives

> ᴺS. dod “berry”
- ⇒ ᴺS. ^gwendod “elder tree; elderberry, *(lit.) maiden berry”
> ᴺS. dod- “to drop, ⚠️fall down”

ᴱ√ÐOTO root. “drop, fall”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “drop, fall” but with no Qenya derivatives (QL/86). In the Qenya Lexicon Tolkien gave the root as SOTO with ÐOTO in parenthesis, but Gnomish cognates like G. dod- “to fall down, drop” and G. dont “fall, bump, drop” make it clear the true form was ÐOTO.

Neo-Eldarin: I think it is worthwhile to salvage this root as ᴺ√DOT in the more limited sense “drop” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, so we can salvage Gnomish words such as dod- “to drop” and dod “berry”. This hypothetical ᴺ√DOT could be a variant of √DAT “fall”.

References ✧ QL/86

Glosses

“drop, fall” ✧ QL/86 (SOTO)

Variations

ÐOTO ✧ QL/86
SOTO ✧ QL/86

Derivatives

> G. dod “berry”
- ⇒ G. gwindod “elder tree; elderberry” ✧ GL/45
> G. dod- “to fall down, drop”
- ⇒ G. dodri “falling” ✧ GL/30
  - ⇒ G. dodri·lassion “autumn, *(lit.) falling of leaves” ✧ GL/30
> G. dont “fall, bump, drop”