User:Sage/PQ/-rô
From Tolkien Gateway
-rô and -ro are masculine endings in Primitive Elvish which indicate agentival formations[1] 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.
The ending -ondô was frequently suffixed to it, like lansro-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 bavk in Primitive Elvish.
Examples
- Abaro (ABA) > Q. Avar
- Ataro (ATA) > Q. Atar
- beurô (BEW) > S. beor > byr
- kalrô (KAL) > Q. callo
- kwentro (KWET) > Q. quentaro
- ndêro (N-DER) > Q. nér S. dîr
- ndeuro (NDEW) > Q. neuro S. dior
- njadrô (NYAD)
- onrô (ONO)
- ontâro
- Spanturo
- Stabrô (STAB)
- tamrô (TAM)
- târo (TAȜ)
- tûrô/turo (TUR)
See also
Other agentive suffixes are
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels p.371