Eldamo : Sindarin : po

S. #po prep. “*on” (Category: Up, Above, Over)

S. #po, prep. “*on” (Category: Up, Above, Over)

A word for “on” in the Ae Adar Nín prayer of the 1950s, appearing only in its lenited form bo (VT44/21). Bill Welden suggested it might be related to primitive √apa “touch” (VT44/26), perhaps from primitive *pā.

Conceptual Development: Early Noldorin word lists of the 1920s had ᴱN. ó “to, on” derived from primitive ᴱ✶apa, with apa > aa > á > au > o when unstressed (PE13/151), though why the intervocalic p vanished isn’t clear.

References ✧ VT44/26

bo “*on” [is, per editors, perhaps related to] √apa “touch” ✧ VT44/26

Inflections

soft-mutation; p-mutation

“*on”

✧ VT44/26

Element In

S. bo Ceven sui vi Menel “on Earth as [it is] in Heaven” ✧ VT44/21

ᴱN. ô prep. “to, on” (Category: Up, Above, Over)

See S. #po for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE13/151 ✧ ó “to, on”

Element In

ᴱN. oga “above, on top of” ✧ PE13/151

Cognates

ᴱT. pa “to, on” ✧ PE13/151

Derivations

< ᴱ✶apa “to, on” ✧ PE13/151
- < au < á < aa < apa ✧ PE13/151