Adûnaic
nê Reconstructed
pronoun. us
Element in
- Ad. agannâlô burôda nênud “[the] death-shadow [is] heavy on us” ✧ SD/247; SD/312
- Ad. agannūlo burudan nēnum “death-shade heavy-is on-us” ✧ SD/312
- Ad. zâira nênud “longing (is) on us” ✧ SD/247
Variations
- nē ✧ SD/247; SD/312; SD/312
A first person plural object pronoun “us” attested only in the prepositional phrase “on us” in the Lament of Akallabêth, developing though the various drafts as nēnum >> nēnu >> nēnud (SD/247, 312). Most authors identify the element nê as the pronoun (AAD/20, LGtAG, NBA/14), which seems likely since the prepositional element is probably -num/nu/nud related to Q. nu “under”. It is not clear whether this pronoun can also be used as a subject pronoun “we”, or if it must always be an object “us”.