atheg

noun. "litte father"

atheg

noun. thumb (Elvish play-name used by and taught to children)

atheg

noun. [little] father; thumb

A play-name for thumb, as well as an affection word for “father”, in notes Elvish Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s (VT48/6). It is a combination of the root √AT with the diminutive suffix -eg. Tolkien considered but rejected several alternate forms including aderig and tadeg (VT48/17 note #13).

Cognates

• Q. atto “daddy, father (familiar/family)” ✧ VT48/06

Elements

Word	Gloss
adar	“father”
-eg	“diminutive/singular ending”

Variations

• aderig ✧ VT48/17 (aderig)
• tadeg ✧ VT48/17 (tadeg)

atheg

little father

atheg (pl. ethig). The word was also used in childrens play for ”thumb”. (VT48:6, 17)

adar

noun. father

The Sindarin word for “father”, derived from the root √AT(AR) (PM/324; VT44/21-22; VT48/19).

Conceptual Development: N. adar “father” also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√ATA of the same meaning (Ety/ATA). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, however, G. †ador “father” was marked as archaic, and it seems {athon >>} G. nathon was the ordinary word for ”father” (GL/17, 59).

Cognates

• Q. atar “father” ✧ PM/324

Derivations

• Os. atar
  • ✶atar “father”
  • √AT(AR) “father”

Element in

• S. ae Adar nín i vi Menel “our Father who [art] in Heaven” ✧ VT44/22
• S. atheg “[little] father; thumb” ✧ VT48/17 (aderig)
• S. Edenedair “Fathers of Men”
• S. Eladar “Starfather”
• S. Iarwain Ben-adar “Oldest and Fatherless”

Variations

• Adar ✧ VT44/22

adar

noun. father

adar

father

adar (pl. edair);

ada

father

(pl. edai)

adar

father

(pl. edair);

adanadar

father of men

normally pl. Edenedair "Fathers of Men", the early Edain.