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'''NASAG''' is an [[Elvish]] [[Sundocarme|root]] of unknown primary signification, although its derivatives relate to "compulsion, bond".<ref name=PE19>{{PE|19}}, p. 17</ref>
'''NASAG''' is an [[Elvish]] [[Sundocarme|root]] of unknown primary signification, although its derivatives relate to "compulsion, bond".<ref name=PE19>{{PE|19}}, pp. 17, 101 (footnote 155)</ref>


==Derivatives==
==Derivatives==
 
*[[Common Eldarin]]: ''[[nasag]]'' > ''nazg-'' ("compulsion, bond"); ''[[nazgwē]]'' ("bondage, durance")<ref name=PE19/>
*[[Common Eldarin]]: ''nasag'' > ''nazg-'' ("compulsion, bond"); ''nazgwē'' ("bondage, durance")<ref name=PE19/>
**[[Quenya]]: ''[[naxa]]'' ("bond, fetter"); ''[[nasque]]'' ("bondage, durance")<ref name=PE19/>
**[[Quenya]]: ''naxa'' ("bond, fetter"); ''nasque'' ("bondage, durance")<ref name=PE19/>
**[[Sindarin]]: ''[[nadha]]'' ("fetter")<ref name=PE19/>
**[[Black Speech]]: ''[[nazg]]''<ref name=PE19/>
**[[Black Speech]]: ''[[nazg]]''<ref name=PE19/>


==Other versions of the legendarium==
==Other versions of the legendarium==


Before undertaking a revision in the late 1960s, [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] had written (probably in 1951) that root NASAG yielded the derivative ''nazgwē'', historically shifted to Primitive Quendian ''nasque'' ("evil [[Spectres|spectre]]").<ref name=PE19/>
Before undertaking a revision in the late 1960s, [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] had written (probably in 1951) that root NASAG yielded the derivative ''nazgwē'', historically shifted to ''nasque'' ("evil [[Spectres|spectre]]").<ref name=PE19/>


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Latest revision as of 19:35, 16 May 2017

NASAG is an Elvish root of unknown primary signification, although its derivatives relate to "compulsion, bond".[1]

Derivatives[edit | edit source]

Other versions of the legendarium[edit | edit source]

Before undertaking a revision in the late 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien had written (probably in 1951) that root NASAG yielded the derivative nazgwē, historically shifted to nasque ("evil spectre").[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Quenya Phonology", in Parma Eldalamberon XIX (edited by Christopher Gilson), pp. 17, 101 (footnote 155)