atha-

verb. will (future)

tâd

cardinal. two

The usual Sindarin word for “two” derived from ✶tata, a variant of √ATATA that was the basis for Q. atta “two” (PE17/14; VT42/27; Ety/TATA). It appears with both a short vowel as tad and a long vowel as tâd. I think the long-vowel form is the most correct one, but the short-vowel form is used for prefixes or when the word is not emphasized in a phrase.

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. atha “two”, but this was deleted and revised to G. atha as the “pl. 3rd person pronoun” (GL/20) and no new word for “two” was given.

tâd

cardinal. two

1. tâd (in compounds tad-, as in tad-dal ”two-legged”), 2) (adjectival prefix) ui- (twi-, both).

ent

pronoun. they, 3rd pl. pronoun

est

pronoun. they, 3rd pl. pronoun

idi(r)

pronoun. they, 3rd pl. pronoun

ith

pronoun. they, 3rd pl. pronoun

tad

cardinal. two

tâd

cardinal. two

tad-dal

two-legged

(lenited dad-dal), pl. tad-dail.

tâd

two

(in compounds tad-, as in tad-dal ”two-legged”)

ui

two

(twi-, both).