User:Sage/PQ/-rô

-rô and -ro are masculine endings in Primitive Elvish which indicate agentival formations or just masculine endings.

Its feminine counterpart was -rî, -rê.

-rô was usually suffixed to a word root with or without n-infixion, and produce the word. The short form -ro is used after a suffixed stem-vowel; a possible exception to this was kwentro instead of *kwetro or *kwentrô. In a few cases, it seems to be suffixed to a verb stem.

The ending was frequently extended with -ondô, like lansrondo, kalro-ndo.

Etymology

Perhaps it is related to sô, so "he". In later Quenya, the sound r is related to s and it's possible that this connection existed even back in Primitive Elvish.

Definitely it's related to the simple masculine ending -ô, -o, also often having agentival meaning.

Examples

The unlinked words are unattested.

• Abaro (ABA) > Q. Avar
• ataro (ATA) > Q. atar S. adar
• badro (BAD) > S. badhor
• bakhro (MBAKH) > S. bachor
• beurô (BEW) > S. beor > byr
• kalrô (KAL) > Q. callo S. callon (from kalrondô)
• kaprô (KAP) > S. cabor
• kwentro (KWET) > Q. quentaro S. pethron, pindor
• ndêro (N-DER) > Q. nér S. dîr
• ndeuro (NDEW) > Q. neuro S. dior
• khatrô (KHAT) > S. hador
• maktâro (*maktâ-) > S. maethor
• nektâro (*naktâ- "to slay") > Q. nehtar
• njadrô (NYAD) > Q. nyarro S. nâr
• Ñgolrô (ÑGOL) > S. gollor
• oktaro (KOTH) > Q. ohtar
• onrô (ONO) > S. odhron
• ontâro (*ontâ- "to beget") > Q. ontar
• stabrô (STAB) > S. thavron, thavon (from alt. stabnô)
• tamrô (TAM) > Q. tambaro S. tavor
• târo (TAȜ) > Q. tár, tar S. taur, tôr
• telero (TELE) > Q/S. teler
• wa-nôrô (ONO) > Q. onóro, S. wanúro, gwanur

Words that do NOT contain -rô

• berô (BER)
• tawarô/tawaro (TAWAR)
• tûrô/turo (TUR)

See also

Other agentive suffixes are

• -nô
• -rdo