Adûnaic
izindi
adjective. straight, right, true
Changes
- ezendi → izindi “straight” ✧ SD/247
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. izindu-bêth “true-sayer, prophet” ✧ SD/427
Variations
- ezendi ✧ SD/312
An adjective glossed “straight” (SD/247), “right” (VT24/12) and “true” (SD/427), the last of these in the compound izindu-bêth “true-sayer”. This final example is interesting, because the adjective izindi is declined into the objective case.
Conceptual Development: In its first appearance (SD/312), the form of this adjective was ezendi, an impossible form in the later phonetic rules of Lowdham’s Report, since Adûnaic only allowed the long vowel [ē] (SD/423).