Ilk. class plural grammar.
Ilkorin had a class-plural suffix -ath, identical in form and origin to -ath (PE21/57). This suffix appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s within the collective form Eglath of Egla “Elf”, both as Doriathrin (Ety/ELED) and general Ilkorin (Ety/GAT(H), LED). It is possible this suffix was also used as (and was perhaps inspired by) the Gnomish general plural suffix -th.
| Examples (class-plural) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilk. círiath | “ships” | ← cīr | ✧ PE21/57 | ||||||
| Ilk. ciriath | “ships” | ← cir | ✧ PE21/57 | ||||||
| Dor. Eglath | ← Egla | ✧ Ety/ELED | |||||||
| Ilk. Eglath | “Eldar” | [← Egla] | ✧ Ety/GAT(H) | ||||||
| Ilk. Eglath | “Eldar, Ilkorians” | [← Egla] | ✧ Ety/LED | ||||||
Reference ✧ PE21/57 ✧ for example: círiath ← cīr
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