doom
Noldorin
badh-
verb. to judge
band
noun. duress, prison, custody, safe-keeping
bad- Reconstructed
verb. *to tread, travel, *to tread, [G.] travel
ú-
prefix. un, bad-
baudh
noun. judgement
adab
noun. building, house
aglareb
adjective. glorious
aglareb
adjective. glorious
al-
prefix. no, not
ammarth
noun. doom
balch
adjective. cruel
balch
adjective. cruel
bann
noun. duress, prison, custody, safe-keeping
bartha-
verb. to doom
baudh
noun. judgement
blab-
verb. to beat, batter, flap (wings, etc.)
dringa-
verb. to beat (with a hammer, etc.)
foeg
adjective. mean, poor, bad
foeg
adjective. mean, poor, bad
hoth
noun. host, crowd, horde (nearly always in a bad sense)
lhonn
noun. narrow path or strait
lhonn
noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven
lond
noun. narrow path or strait
lond
noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven
lonn
noun. narrow path or strait
lonn
noun. entrance to harbour, land-locked haven
lonn
noun. path
manadh
noun. doom, final end, fate, fortune
manadh
noun. final bliss
mû
interjection. no
othlon
noun. paved way
othlond
noun. paved way
pâd
noun. ?way
rada-
verb. to make a way, find a way
râd
noun. path, track
taur
adjective. mighty, vast, overwhelming, huge, awful, high, sublime
tharbad
place name. (?Crossway)
um
adjective. bad, evil
ûl
noun. odour
ûl
noun. odour, odour, *smell, scent
The earliest appearance of this verb was G. bad- “travel” from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/21), probably based on the early root ᴱ√VAHA (QL/99). N. bad- appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as an element in the verb N. trevad- “traverse” under the root ᴹ√BAT “tread” (Ety/BAT), so probably of similar meaning.
The verb bad- was probably the original basis for the passive participle N. govannen “met” in the phrase mai govannen “well met” in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (RS/194). In Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s, Tolkien gave the primitive form of this passive participle as ✶gwā-ƀandina (PE17/17). In this same set of notes he considered basing govannen on a Sindarin verb form ba(n)- “go” (PE17/16). By 1959 Tolkien had abandoned √BA(N) “go” and replaced it with √MEN (PE17/143); see those entries for discussion.
Neo-Sindarin: I don’t think the verb S. ba(n)- “go” can be used, but I think N. bad- can be salvaged with the sense “to tread”. For “travel” I prefer glenna-.