User:Sage/PQ/-rô

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-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 , 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 , -o, also often having agentival meaning.

Examples

The unlinked words are unattested.

Words that do NOT contain -rô

See also

Other agentive suffixes are

References