adûn

noun. west, westward

A noun meaning “west(ward)” (SD/435, PE17/18). Tolkien stated that was “a loan word from Eldarin speech in the language of the Folk of Hador, from which Númenórean was later derived” (PE17/18). Probably it is derived from S. dûn “west”, as suggested by several authors (AAD/9, EotAL/NDU). Tolkien stated that it was an adjective and its proper noun form was adûni (SD/435), but adûn was used as a noun in phrases such as Bârîm an-adûn “Lords of the West” (SD/247).

Cognates

• ᴹQ. númen “west” ✧ SD/240
• Q. númen “west, direction or region of the sunset, occident, (lit.) going down” ✧ PE17/018; SA/andúnë

Derivations

• S. dûn “west” ✧ PE17/018
  • √NDU “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)” ✧ SA/andúnë

Element in

• Ad. Adûnâ “Númenórean, (lit.) Westerner” ✧ PE17/018; SD/240
• Ad. Adûnakhôr “Lord of the West” ✧ SA/andúnë
• Ad. adûni “the West” ✧ SD/435
• Ad. adûn izindi batân tâidô ayadda “[the] road west once went straight, (lit.) west straight road once went” ✧ SD/247
• Ad. adūn batān akhaini ezendi “West road lay straight” ✧ SD/312
• Ad. Anadûnê “Westernesse” ✧ SD/240
• Ad. Bârim an-Adûn yurahtam dâira sâibêth-mâ Êruvô “Lords of [the] West, they rent [the] Earth with assent from Eru” ✧ SD/247
• Ad. bārun an-adūn {urahhata >>} urahta dāira sāibēth-mā ēruvō ✧ SD/247
• Ad. bārun-adūnō rakkhatū kamāt sōbēthumā eruvō “the Lord of West broke asunder earth assent-with of God” ✧ SD/311
• Ad. Inziladûn “Flower of the West”
• Ad. narîka ’nBâri ’nAdûn yanâkhim “The Eagles of the Lords of the West are at hand” ✧ SD/251

Variations

• adūn ✧ SD/240; SD/247; SD/247; SD/312; SD/435
• Adūn ✧ SD/251