BAT is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "tread".[1]
Derivatives
- Old Noldorin: bata ("beaten track, pathway")[1]
- Exilic Noldorin: bád ("beaten track, pathway");[1][2] batho ("trample")[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 351 (root appearing as "BAT-")
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 7 ("bâd" -> "bád")