Adûnaic

batân

noun. road, path, way

A noun variously translated as “road”, “path” or “way” (SD/247, 431; VT24/12) and fully declined on SD/431. This noun also appears in the variant strong-plural form batîn that was sometimes used with Weak I nouns in older and poetic writing (SD/247, 435). Its ordinary weak plural form batânî appears in the declension chart on SD/431. Several authors have suggested (AAD/13, EotAL/BAT) that this noun may be a derivative of the Elvish root ᴹ√BAT “tread” (Ety/BAT). If so, its final element may be the agental suffix -ân, and its initial element may be a verb ✱bat- “walk”, so that the literal sense of the word might be “✱walkway”.

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
bat-“to walk”
-ân“agental suffix”

Variations

  • batān ✧ SD/247; SD/312; SD/431
Adûnaic [SD/247; SD/312; SD/431; SD/432; SD/435; VT24/12] Group: Eldamo. Published by