A Primitive Adûnaic root glossed “hand”, the basis for the noun pâ of the same meaning (SD/416).
Primitive adûnaic
hi Reconstructed
root. she
paʒ
root. hand
paʒa
noun. hand
The Primitive Adûnaic form of the noun pâ “hand” (SD/426).
ʒu Reconstructed
root. he
A Primitive Adûnaic form attested as u “he” (SD/435), but given the later Adûnaic pronoun Ad. u or hu “he”, the actual primitive pronoun may have been ✱ƷU [ɣu], ✱ʔU or ✱HU [xu], as Tolkien indicated in a footnote (SD/433, note #7). The suffix -u was also a common feature of Classical Adûnaic masculine-nouns.
A Primitive Adûnaic form attested as i “she” (SD/435), but given the later feminine pronoun Ad. hi, the actual primitive pronoun must have been ✱HI [xi]. The suffix -i was also a common feature of Classical Adûnaic feminine-nouns.