taid

adjective. supporting, second in command

An archaic Sindarin word that used to mean “second”, the equivalent of Q. tatya. For this meaning, it was displaced in modern Sindarin by tadui. The word taid remained in use only for the more limited sense “supporting, second in command” (VT42/25).

taid

adjective. second (in the sense of supporting, second in command)

taid

second-in-command

taid (i daid, o thaid), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thaid). The word is also used as adj. ”supporting”.

taid

supporting

(adj.) taid, lenited daid, no distinct pl. form. Also used as a noun ”second-in-command”.

taid

second-in-command

(i daid, o thaid), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thaid). The word is also used as adj. ”supporting”.

taid

supporting

lenited daid, no distinct pl. form. Also used as a noun ”second-in-command”.

(lenited

second-in-command

conui (lenited gonui, no distinct pl. form). SECOND-IN-COMMAND taid (i daid, o thaid), no distinct pl. form except with article (i thaid**). The word is also used as adj. ”supporting”.

conui

adjective. commanding, (?) ruling

edwen

ordinal. second

edwen

ordinal. second

tadeg

ordinal. second

tadui

ordinal. second

tadui

ordinal. second

The Sindarin word for “second”, an adjectival form of tâd “two” in notes from the late 1960s using the adjectival suffix -ui (VT42/25).

Conceptual Development: Earlier in these same 1960s notes, Tolkien had tadeg as the colloquial word for “second” but this word was deleted (VT42/10).

Sometime around 1950, the King’s Letter in the unpublished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings had a word edwen “second” in the phrase egor ben genediad Drannail erin Gwirith edwen “or in the Shire-reckoning the second day of April” (SD/129). The preceding phrase had dolothen “eighth”, clearly a mutated form of tolothen which was an adjectival form of toloth “eight” with the adjectival suffix -en rather than later -ui. The same suffix can be seen in edwen, and its initial element might be related to adu (adw-) “double”.

The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. obin “second, next” based on G. ob “after, close behind” (GL/62).

ad

second

(as prefix) ad-, also meaning "back, again, re-", e.g. aderthad "Reunion", and also in the term for

ad

second

also meaning "back, again, re-", e.g. aderthad "Reunion", and also in the term for

aduial

second twilight

(evendim, the time of evening when the stars come out), pl. aduiail.

conui

adjective. commanding

conui

commanding

(lenited gonui, no distinct pl. form).

edwen

second

(pl. edwin).

tadui

second

(adjective) 1) tadui (lenited dadui; no distinct pl. form), 2) edwen (pl. edwin).

tadui

second

(lenited dadui; no distinct pl. form)