A word for “father” in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/111). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s itself, G. babi or baba was “mummy, mamma” (GL/21, 57). As pointed out by Gilson, Welden, Hostetter and Wynne, there is a complementary change of {nân “father” >>} G. nân “mother” elsewhere in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/115).
Gnomish
(n)ada
noun. daddy, father
a(d)
preposition. into
ada
noun. daddy
adi
noun. daddy
ador
noun. father
avin
preposition. into
bin
preposition. into
bâb
noun. father
le
preposition. and
nathon
noun. father
to
proper name. To
A word for “into” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s that Tolkien said caused stop mutation, and equivalent to ᴱQ. atta (GL/17). Elsewhere on the page Tolkien had a deleted form {ath} “at, towards, in direction of, into”.