Doriathrin
dôn
noun. back
Derivations
- ᴹ√(N)DAN “back, backwards” ✧ Ety/NDAN
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NDAN > dôn [ndān] > [ndōn] > [dōn] ✧ Ety/NDAN
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A Doriathrin word for “back” explicitly marked as a noun (Ety/NDAN). Its primitive form might have been ✱✶ndān, so that the primitive long [[ilk|[ā] became [ō]]] and the [[ilk|initial nasal [n] was lost before the stop]] (as suggested by Helge Fauskanger, AL-Doriathrin/dôn).