e- (sg. genitival article)
Sindarin
-u
suffix. a person or being
Derivations
- √WĒ/EWE “person, being, individual” ✧ PE17/190
Element in
- S. Elu
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √WE > -u [-we] > [-w] > [-u] ✧ PE17/190
-on
suffix. masculine suffix
Cognates
- Q. -ndo “masculine agent”
Derivations
- ✶-on(do) “masculine ending”
Element in
- S. aphadon “follower”
- S. Astoron
- ᴺS. cirion “sailor, shipman”
- S. Daeron
- S. Ecthelion “?One with Sharp Will”
- S. Erchamion “One-handed”
- S. Firion “(Male) Mortal” ✧ WJ/387
- S. Galadhon
- S. Saelon
- S. tauron “forester”
- S. thalion “strong, dauntless, strong, dauntless; [N.] hero, dauntless man; [ᴱN.] warrior”
- S. Thennor “*Grey-Elf (m.)” ✧ PE17/141; PE17/141
- S. Yssion “Ossë” ✧ WJ/400
Variations
- -on ✧ PE17/141; WJ/387; WJ/400
- -or ✧ PE17/141
uin
preposition. of the
en
of the
nan
preposition. of
o
from
(od), followed by hard mutation; with article uin ”from the, of the” (followed by mixed mutation according to David Salo’s reconstuctuons). (WJ:366) Not to be confused with o ”about, concerning” (q.v. for this meaning of ”of”). 2) na (followed by lenition), with article nan (followed by ”mixed mutation”, according to David Salo’s reconstruction). The preposition has various meanings: ”with, by, near” and also ”to, toward, at; of” 3)
A masculine suffix and ending in male names (PE17/43, 141; WJ/400), probably related to the masculine ending or agental suffix ✶-on(do) (NM/353; Ety/KAL). It becomes -or when following an n (PE17/141).
Conceptual Development: N. -on was often use as a male suffix in the Noldorin of the 1930s and 40s. In Gnomish of the 1910s, it seems G. -os was another common male suffix in words such as G. ainos “(male) god” from neuter G. ain “god” (GL/18) and G. hethos “brother” from neuter G. heth “✱sibling” (GL/48-49), though masculine G. -(r)on was still more common in this early period.