-dur

suffix. -servant

-nur

suffix. -servant

-(n)dur

suffix. servant; to serve

Derivations

• ✶-ndūr “attend, tend”
  • √(N)DUR “love, feeling of special concern with, care for, or interest in things, to show special interest in things; [ᴹ√] bow down, bend (low), obey, serve; grow/be dark”
• √(N)DUR “love, feeling of special concern with, care for, or interest in things, to show special interest in things; [ᴹ√] bow down, bend (low), obey, serve; grow/be dark” ✧ PE17/152

Element in

• Q. arandur “minister, steward, (lit.) king’s servant” ✧ Let/386
• Q. Aulendur “Servant of Aulë”
• Q. Cemendur “*Servant of the Earth”
• ᴺQ. cemendur “farmer”
• Q. Vëandur
• Q. Eärendur “Mariner, *(lit.) Servant of the Sea” ✧ PE17/152; SA/(n)dur
• Q. ëarendur “(professional) mariner, *(lit.) servant of the sea” ✧ Let/386
• Q. Eärnur “*Servant of the Sea” ✧ PE17/152; SA/(n)dur
• Q. Elendur “*Star-servant”
• ᴺQ. Hristondur “Christian, (lit.) Servant of Christ”
• Q. Isildur “*Servant of the Moon”
• Q. Meneldur “*Servant of the Heavens”
• ᴺQ. námondur “court-attendant, (lit.) judge-servants”
• Q. ornendur “tree-keep, forester, woodsman”
• Q. Pelendur “?Servant of the Border”
• ᴺQ. tarwandur “gardener”
• Q. Valandur “*Servant of the Vala”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√DUR > ndur	[-ndur]	✧ PE17/152

Variations

• -nur ✧ PE17/152
• ndur ✧ PE17/152
• dur ✧ PE17/152

núro

servant

núro noun "servant" (NDŪ; in Etym as published in LR, the gloss is misread as "sunset"; see VT45:38)

(n)dur

root. love, feeling of special concern with, care for, or interest in things, to show special interest in things; [ᴹ√] bow down, bend (low), obey, serve; grow/be dark

Counterpart to the root √N(D)IL, this root first appeared in a marginal note from The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√NDUR or ᴹ√DUR “bow down, bend (down), obey, serve”, an elaboration of ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” (Ety/NDŪ; EtyAC/NDŪ). In the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s, ᴹ√NDUR was glossed “grow, be dark”, no doubt in connection to N./S. dûr “dark” (PE22/103), but later this “dark” word was connected more directly to √NDU “under, down”. Indeed, in a 1955 letter to David Masson, Tolkien gave √(N)DUR an origin distinct from √N(D)U, basing it on an independent root √DUR “to show special interest in things” (PE17/152); there was also an unglossed and deleted root ᴹ√DUR in The Etymologies of the 1930s (EtyAC/DUR). However, in a 1967 letter to Mr. Rang, -(n)dur again meant “to serve” (Let/386).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is best to keep the connection between √NDUR “bow down = serve” and √NDU “descend”. As for the semantic distinctions between -(n)dil and -(n)dur, see the entry on the root √N(D)IL for details.

Derivatives

• ✶-ndūr “attend, tend”
  • Q. -(n)dur “servant; to serve”
• Q. -(n)dur “servant; to serve” ✧ PE17/152
• ᴺQ. nurmë “subordination”

Element in

• ᴺQ. nur- “to serve”
• Q. ornendur “tree-keep, forester, woodsman” ✧ NM/020

Variations

• ndur ✧ NM/020
• DUR ✧ PE17/151; PE17/151; PE17/152