ᴱ√OŊO root. “*pain”
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ᴱ√ONGO, but parenthetical ᴱ√OŊO seems to be more representative of its actual primitive form; it had derivatives ᴱQ. ongo- “it pains me” and ᴱQ. ongwe “pain” (QL/70). G. ong “great pain” and G. ongos “anguish” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon are probably related (GL/62). In later writings Tolkien used different roots for “pain”, such as ᴹ√NAYAK.
References ✧ QL/70
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