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).
Doriathrin
thorn
noun. eagle
Cognates
- ᴹQ. soron “eagle” ✧ Ety/THOR
Derivations
- ᴹ√THOR(ON) “come swooping down” ✧ Ety/THOR
Element in
- Ilk. Thorntor “King of Eagles” ✧ Ety/THOR
- Ilk. Torthurnion “King of Eagles” ✧ Ety/THOR
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√THÓRON > thorn [tʰoronē] > [tʰorone] > [tʰorne] > [θorne] > [θorn] > [θorn] ✧ Ety/THOR Variations
- thurin ✧ EtyAC/THOR
dôn
noun. back
Derivations
- ᴹ√(N)DAN “back, backwards” ✧ Ety/NDAN
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√NDAN > dôn [ndān] > [ndōn] > [dōn] ✧ Ety/NDAN
reg
noun. holly
A Doriathrin noun for “holly” attested only in the plural forms regin and region (Ety/ERÉK). It also appeared as an element in the word regorn “holly-tree”. It seems that the latter word replaced reg in the singular, and the original survived only in the plurals, as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Doriathrin/regorn).
Cognates
- N. ereg “holly-tree” ✧ Ety/ERÉK
Derivations
- ᴹ√(E)REK “thorn, holly” ✧ Ety/ERÉK
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√ERÉK > regin [rek] > [reg] ✧ Ety/ERÉK
A noun for “eagle” derived from the root ᴹ√THÓRON (Ety/THOR). Its cognates ᴹQ. soron and N. thoron suggest a primitive form ✱✶thoronē, where the middle [o] was lost due to the Ilkorin syncope. Its plural form is not thurin as printed in The Lost Road, but is actually thurnin matching its singular (EtyAC/THOR), as predicted by Helge Fauskanger (AL-Ilkorin/thorn).