Primitive adûnaic
dāw’r
noun. gloom
Derivations
- √Ad. DAWAR “*gloom” ✧ SD/423
Derivatives
- Ad. dâur “gloom” ✧ SD/423
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √Ad. DAWAR > dāw’r [dāwr] ✧ SD/423
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A Primitive Adûnaic word glossed “gloom” (SD/423), the only attested example of a single-vowel-form for a triconsonantal-root. Ordinarily such a form would not be possible, since final consonant clusters did not appear in Primitive Adûnaic (SD/418, 426). It is possible that such forms were valid in the case of medial semi-vowels [w] and [j], however, since [[ad|[w] and [j] became [u] and [i] before consonants and finally]], thereby preventing a cluster from forming.