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[edit] Doriathrin

roth (pl. rodhin) is a Doriathrin word meaning "cave".[1]

[edit] Etymology

The word is a descendant form of ?Old Noldorin rōda > rōdh > rōth, deriving from root ROD ("cave").[1]

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[edit] Other versions

The word is given in the Etymologies to explain the name Menegroth.[1] In a later source Tolkien gives the Sindarin word groth instead.[2]

[edit] Adûnaic

roth is an Adûnaic word meaning "foam". Its original sense was "cutting, track" (as in the compounds obroth "fore-cutting" and nadroth "hind-track").[3][4]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", p. 384
  2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: Author's Notes to Quendi and Eldar" p. 415 (note 26)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Problem of Ros", p. 376 (note 22)
  4. ↑ Helge Fauskanger, Adûnaic: the vernacular of Númenor at Ardalambion (accessed 11 July 2011)
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