Adûnaic
êru
masculine name. God (the Omnipotent)
Changes
- Eru → Êru ✧ SD/387
Cognates
- ᴹQ. Eru “The One God” ✧ SDI2/Eru
Derivations
- √Ad. ʔIR “one, alone”
Element in
- Ad. Bârim an-Adûn yurahtam dâira sâibêth-mâ Êruvô “Lords of [the] West, they rent [the] Earth with assent from Eru” ✧ SD/247; SD/249
- 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. Êru-bênî “Servants of God” ✧ SD/341
- Ad. Êruhin “Child of God” ✧ SD/249
Variations
- ēru ✧ SD/247
- Ēru ✧ SD/249; SD/432
- Eru ✧ SD/341; SD/387
The Adûnaic word for God (SD/432), the equivalent of Q. Eru, though Tolkien had not yet coined that name. In the conceptual development of this name, Tolkien first invented it as an Adûnaic word (SD/312), only later adding it to Quenya. In this revised scenario, it is likely that the Adûnaic word was a loan word from Elvish. See Ad. Amân for a similar development.