Eldamo : Noldorin : dad

N. dad adv. “down” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

N. dad, adv. “down” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath): G. hum “(right) down, (lit.) to bottom”; G. nal² “down, downwards”; G. naldron “lower down”; G. naltha “downward, lower, low-down; (av.) below, beneath”; ᴱN. nofn “down, set”; G. nunthi “downward”

A word for “down” in The Etymologies under the root ᴹ√DAT “fall down”; Tolkien marked dad as EN [Exhilic Noldorin] (Ety/DAT). The original ink entry had a prefix dad- “down” that Tolkien simply marked as N[oldorin] (EtyAC/DAT).

Conceptual Development: Early Noldorin Word-lists had ᴱN. dad as an element in words like ᴱN. dadvenn “downhill” (PE13/139) and ᴱN. dadnuin “sinking down” (PE13/161).

References ✧ Ety/DAT; EtyAC/DAT

Glosses

“down” ✧ Ety/DAT; EtyAC/DAT

Element In

N. dadben “downhill, inclined, prone” ✧ Ety/DAT; EtyAC/DAT (dadbenn)
N. Rhimdad “Rushdown”
ᴺS. !dadhir “downstream”

Derivations

< ᴹ√DAT “fall down” ✧ Ety/DAT; EtyAC/DAT

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√DAT > dad

[data] > [dat] > [dad]

✧ Ety/DAT

ᴱN. #dad adv. “down” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

See N. dad for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/139, 161

Glosses

“down” ✧ PE13/139 (#dad); PE13/161 (#dad)

Element In

ᴱN. dadnuv- “*to sink, go down”
ᴱN. dadnuin “sinking (down)” ✧ PE13/161
ᴱN. dadvenn “downhill; (figuratively) easy-going, easy, not arduous” ✧ PE13/139