thar (prefix “across”) + pad (“way”)
Sindarin
tharbad
place name. Crossway, Crossing
Derivations
- ✶thara-pata “crossway” ✧ SA/thar
Elements
Word Gloss thar “across, athwart, over” pâd “a step (action); track, road; ford, a step (action); track, road; ford; [N.] way” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶thara-pata > Tharbad [tʰarapata] > [θarapata] > [θarapat] > [θarapad] > [θarabad] > [θarbad] ✧ SA/thar
tharbad
noun. cross-way
tharbad
noun. crossroads
tharbad
'Teeping Stones'
tharbad
crossway
tharbad (pl. therbaid)
tharbad
crossway
tharbad (pl. therbaid),
tharbad
crossway
(pl. therbaid)
mên
way
1) mên (i vên, construct men, in compounds -ven) (road), pl. mîn (i mîn), 2) lend (journey), pl. lind, coll. pl. lennath. Note: a homophone means ”tuneful, sweet”, 3) #pâd (construct pad), i bâd, pl. paid (i phaid). Isolated from Tharbad ”Crossroad”. 4) tê (i dê, o thê) (line), pl. tî (i thî), coll. pl. ?teath.
pâd
way
(construct pad), i bâd, pl. paid (i phaid). Isolated from Tharbad ”Crossroad”.
pâd
noun. way
men
noun. way, road
othlonn
noun. paved way
lend
way
(journey), pl. lind, coll. pl. lennath. Note: a homophone means ”tuneful, sweet”
mên
way
(i vên, construct men, in compounds -ven) (road), pl. mîn (i mîn)
tê
way
(i dê, o thê) (line), pl. tî (i thî), coll. pl. ?teath.
A ford over the river Gwathló (LotR/274) translated as “Crossway” (SA/thar) or “(Road) Crossing” (RC/15, PE17/34). This name is a combination of thar “across” and pâd “way” (PE17/34).
Conceptual Development: The name N. Tharbad appeared in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/164). It also appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√THAR “across, beyond”, where it had a difficult-to-read gloss, most likely “✱Crossway” according to Christopher Tolkien (Ety/THAR).