A noun appearing as {bodn >>} bón “back” in Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s based on primitive ᴱ✶bodn- and equivalent to ᴱQ. ponte (PE13/139).
Early Noldorin
thorn
noun. eagle
cristhorn
place name. Eagles’ Cleft
aith
noun. thorn, †spear
aithr
noun. thorn, sword
anc
noun. spear
bod
adverb. back
bod-
prefix. back, back, [G.] again; un- (= backwards)
boron
adjective. steadfast
bôn
noun. back
dad
adverb. down
segeth
noun. sword
thalion
masculine name. Steadfast
An adverb appearing as G. bod “behind, back, (of time) ago, a while back” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s that Tolkien said was based on an unaccented form of G. pont “the back” (GL/23, 64). As a prefix G. bod- meant “back, again” and also “un-” as in “backwards”. Early Noldorin word-lists of the 1920s had adverb and prefix ᴱN. bod “back” based on primitive ᴱ✶bot- (PE13/139).