Eldamo : Early Quenya : osto

ᴱQ. osto n. “gates of the Sun” (Category: Sun)

⚠️ᴱQ. osto, n. “gates of the Sun” (Category: Sun): Q. osto “fortress, stronghold, strong place; [ᴹQ.] city, town with wall round”

A word for “the gates of the Sun” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the root ᴱ√OŘO [OÐO], also the basis for ᴱQ. ōre “dawn”; Tolkien considered transferring it to the root ᴱ√OSO², the basis for wall and town words (QL/70-71).

References ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/71

Glosses

“gates of the Sun” ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/71

Element In

ᴱQ. Ostor “the East, the Sun when she issues from her white gates” ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/71

Derivations

< ᴱ√OÐO “*dawn” ✧ LT1A/Oromë (ORO²); QL/70 (OŘO)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√OŘO > osto

[oðtō] > [oðto] > [oθto] > [osto]

✧ QL/71