User:Sage/PQ/-nô

-nô and -no are masculine endings in Primitive Elvish which sometimes indicate agentival formations.

Its feminine counterpart was -nê.

-nô was usually suffixed to a word root with or without n-infixion, and produce the word. In a few cases, it seems to be suffixed to a verb stem.

The ending was frequently extended with -ondô.

Etymology

It is perhaps the masculine version of the adjectival ending -nâ. Definitely it contains the simple masculine ending -ô, -o.

-nô was perhaps related to -rô, another coexisting agentival ending and the two were perhaps sometimes interchangeable, as seen with the alternate forms stabrô/stabnô.

Examples

• adnô (AD) > Q. ando S. annon (from *adnondô)
• bernô (BER) >
• besnô (BES) > Q. venno S. benn
• tirnô (TIR) >
  • khalatirnô > Q. halatir S. heledir
• mbandô (MBAD) > Q. mando S. band
• stabnô (STAB) > Q. samno S. thavon
• sjadnô (SYAD) > Q. hyando

Hypothetical examples

The following examples aren't attested in Primitive Elvish but can be seen in the Quenya derivatives. It's possible that the primitive forms did not contain the ending -nô but could be rather the result of fortification of final D > ND

• mbudnô (MBUD) > Q. mundo
• idnô (ID) > Q. indo
• studnô (STUD) > Q. sundo S. thond

See also

Other agentive suffixes are

• -rô
• -rdo