Hi everyone,
I am currently stumbling over the rules of the objective case of Adûnaic nouns in compound words. According to the explanations on eldamo, there are different types of neutral nouns
- Strong 1: ending is a short vowel before a final consonant
- Strong 2a: ending is a short i or a short u
- Strong 2b: ending is a short a
However, some nouns in names like Zimraphel do not behave as I would have expected. For zimra as a neutral noun type Strong 2b, I would have expected the form zimru and also for Imrahil I would have expected that the first part of the word would take on the form imru instead. Could it be that there is another form of nouns that originally ends in -ar and then take on the ending -ra in compound words? So zimar => zimra- and imar => imra- or is there another explanation for this case?
Then there is also the example Inzilbêth. The noun inzil is listed as a neutral noun type Strong 1, which is why I would expect the form inzul or inzlu. For me this could mean that inzil in this case is either already a plural noun and actually means flowers, or that in this case inzil is not the object but bêth and the name is not flower-word but word-flower. The same applies to Sakalthôr for which I would rather expect the form sakul or saklu.