User:Sage/PQ/-rô
-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; 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
- makrô (MAK) > S. magor
- maktârô (*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
See also
Other agentive suffixes are
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels p.371