Ad. îdô katha batîna lôkhî “now all ways (are) bent”

Ad. îdô katha batîna lôkhî “now all ways (are) bent”

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The 12th phrase of the Lament of Akallabêth (VT24/12). The first word is the adverb îdô “now” and the second is the adjective katha “all”. Curiously, the adjective katha is not pluralized to agree with the noun as is the case with adjectives elsewhere in the text, including the pluralized lôkhî at the end of this very sentence.

The subject batîna “roads” is the subjective plural form of the noun batân “road, path, way”. There is no verb, so the subjective form functions as the “to be” verb (SD/429). The final word lôkhî seems to be a pluralized adjective, perhaps #lôkhi.

The typescipt version has kātha instead of katha, but is otherwise identical to the manuscript except some minor differences in translation (SD/247).

References ✧ SD/247; VT24/12

Glosses

Variations

Elements

îdô “now” ✧ SD/247 (īdō)
katha “all” no-agreement ✧ SD/247 (kātha)
batân “road, path, way” plural subjective ✧ SD/247 (batīna)
#lôkhi “bent, crooked” plural ✧ SD/247 (lōkhī)

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Ad. īdō kathī batānī rōkhī-nam “lo! now all ways bent-are”

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The first draft of the 12th phrase of the Lament of Akallabêth (SD/312). Although all of its word are similar to the final version, each has differences in grammar or spelling from the later versions of the text.

Reference ✧ SD/312 ✧ “lo! now all ways bent-are”

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Elements

îdô “now” ✧ SD/312 (īdō)
katha “all” plural ✧ SD/312 (kathī)
batân “road, path, way” draft-plural ✧ SD/312 (batānī)
#lôkhi “bent, crooked” plural ✧ SD/312 (rōkhī)
-n “predicate suffix” plural ✧ SD/312 (-nam)

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