Gnomish
tôdhi
noun. paddock
Derivations
- ᴱ√TAÐA “*hedge, fence, enclosure” ✧ GL/68; GL/71
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√tadh- > tôdhi [tāði] > [tōði] ✧ GL/71
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A word appearing as G. tôdhi {“fringe” >>} “paddock” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s based on ᴱ√tadh- (GL/71), probably from ancient ✱tāðī since [[g|[ā] became [ō]]] in Gnomish.
Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this word as ᴺS. tódhi “paddock” based on the Neo-Root ᴺ√TAD “enclosure”, because while [[os|[ā] became [au]]] in Sindarin, it later [[s|become [ō] or [o]]] in polysyllables. I would assume the final -i was the result of some ancient abstract noun suffix (< ✱tādiyē), much like in S. serni “pebble bank”.