_ n. _ford. Also called athrad 'crossing'.
Sindarin
iach
noun. ford, *crossing
iach
noun. ford, crossing
pâd
ford
athrad
ford
athrad, pl. ethraid
athrad
ford
pl. ethraid
Quenya
sarë
noun. ford
A word for “ford” implied by name Q. Mondósaresse “in Oxford” from 1972 (DTS/70). It is almost certainly based on √THAR, from which S. athrad “ford” is also derived.
Conceptual Development: The entry for the early root ᴱ√TARA in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. tarna “crossing, passage, ford” as an element in ᴱQ. Taruktarna “Oxford” (QL/89). Tarna was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the glosses “passage, ford” (PME/89).
A word for “ford” implied by the names S. Arossiach “Fords of Aros” (S/121) and S. Brithiach which is apparently “✱Gravel Ford” (S/131; UT/54). It might be connected to the root ᴹ√YAK having to do with necks from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/YAK), and might be an element in ninniach “rainbow” (S/238), perhaps meaning “✱watery crossing”.