hoth is a Sindarin word meaning "host, horde (nearly always in a bad sense)".[1][2]
In Noldorin (an early version of Sindarin) the word hoth means "host, crowd" and is "frequent in people-names". It derives from Primitive Quendian khotsē "assembly" (root KHOTH- "gather").[3]
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- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan" (Note 24)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 364