Adûnaic
batân
noun. road, path, way
Element in
- 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. îdô katha batîna lôkhî “now all ways (are) bent” ✧ SD/247
- Ad. īdō kathī batānī rōkhī-nam “lo! now all ways bent-are” ✧ SD/312
Elements
Word Gloss bat- “to walk” -ân “agental suffix” Variations
- batān ✧ SD/247; SD/312; SD/431
A noun variously translated as “road”, “path” or “way” (SD/247, 431; VT24/12) and fully declined on SD/431. This noun also appears in the variant strong-plural form batîn that was sometimes used with Weak I nouns in older and poetic writing (SD/247, 435). Its ordinary weak plural form batânî appears in the declension chart on SD/431. Several authors have suggested (AAD/13, EotAL/BAT) that this noun may be a derivative of the Elvish root ᴹ√BAT “tread” (Ety/BAT). If so, its final element may be the agental suffix -ân, and its initial element may be a verb ✱bat- “walk”, so that the literal sense of the word might be “✱walkway”.