A word Tolkien used to illustrate Adûnaic pronunciation (pronounced [azdi]) without giving its meaning (SD/421).
Adûnaic
a
pronoun. *it
Variations
- a- ✧ SD/247
asdi
?. [unglossed]
Derivations
- √Ad. ASAD “?” ✧ SD/421
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √Ad. ASAD > Asdi [asdi] ✧ SD/421 Variations
- Asdi ✧ SD/421
sapda
?. [unglossed]
A word Tolkien used to illustrate Adûnaic pronunciation without giving its meaning (SD/421).
Derivations
- √Ad. SAPAD “?” ✧ SD/421
Variations
- Sapda ✧ SD/421
-ô
preposition. from
A prepositional suffix translated “from” (SD/429). In a few places, the suffix appears with the glide-consonant v (pronounced [w]) between it and a preceding u-vowel (SD/247, 249). It is likely related to the Quenya genitive inflection Q. -o.
Conceptual Development: At an earlier conceptual stage, this suffix was a grammatical inflection, the draft-genitive -ō (SD/438).
Cognates
- Q. -o “of; genitive ending”
Element in
- Ad. Bârim an-Adûn yurahtam dâira sâibêth-mâ Êruvô “Lords of [the] West, they rent [the] Earth with assent from Eru” ✧ SD/247; SD/249
- Ad. bārun an-adūn {urahhata >>} urahta dāira sāibēth-mā ēruvō ✧ SD/247
- Ad. Indilzar Azrabêlôhin “*Line of Elros [son] of Earendil” ✧ SD/365; SD/382
Variations
- -o ✧ SD/365
- ō ✧ SD/429
A pronominal prefix, most likely the neuter singular pronoun “it”, appearing in the word ayadda “[it] went” in the sentence adûn izindi batân tâidô ayadda “the road west [it] once went straight” (SD/247). See the entry on pronominal-prefixes for more discussion.