NASAG
From Tolkien Gateway
NASAG is an Elvish root of unknown primary signification, although its derivatives relate to "compulsion, bond".[1]
Derivatives
- Common Eldarin: nasag > nazg- ("compulsion, bond"); nazgwē ("bondage, durance")[1]
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 nasque ("evil spectre").[1]
References
- ↑ 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)
