tad-dal

noun/adjective. biped, two-legged animal

tad-dal

adjective. two-legged, two-legged, *biped

Cognates

• Q. attalya “biped, *(lit.) two-footed” ✧ WJ/388

Element in

• S. Levain Tad-dail “Petty Dwarves, (lit.) Two-legged Animals” ✧ WJ/388; WJI/Levain Tad-dail

Elements

Word	Gloss
tâd	“two”
tâl	“foot; [lower] end”

tad

cardinal. two

tâd

cardinal. two

tâd

cardinal. two

Cognates

• Q. atta “two” ✧ PE17/095; VT42/26; VT48/06

Derivations

• ✶(a)tata “two” ✧ PE17/014; VT42/27
  • √ATATA “two, two; [ᴹ√] again, back” ✧ VT42/27

Element in

• S. tad-dal “two-legged, two-legged, *biped”
• S. tadui “second” ✧ VT42/25
• ᴺS. taphaen “twenty”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶atata > (a)táta > tad	[atata] > [tata] > [tat] > [tad] > [tād]	✧ VT42/27

Variations

• tad ✧ PE17/014 (tad); PE17/095; VT42/26; VT42/27; VT48/06

tad-dal

two-legged

(lenited dad-dal), pl. tad-dail.

tad-dal

biped

(also as adj. ”two-legged”) *tad-dal (i dad-dal, o thad-dal), pl. tad-dail (i thad-dail)

tad-dal

biped

(i dad-dal, o thad-dal), pl. tad-dail (i thad-dail)

tad-dal

two-legged

(adj. and noun ”biped”) tad-dal (lenited dad-dal), pl. tad-dail.

tâd

cardinal. two

1) tâd (in compounds tad-, as in tad-dal ”two-legged”), 2) (adjectival prefix) ui- (twi-, both).

tâd

two

(in compounds tad-, as in tad-dal ”two-legged”)

ui

two

(twi-, both).