N. adab n. “building, house” (Category: House (other))
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “building, house” derived from primitive ᴹ✶atakwē under the root ᴹ√TAK “fix, make fast” (Ety/TAK). Here the ancient kw became p and then the voiceless t, p became voiced d, b as they generally did after vowels. It had a (Noldorin) plural form edeb, also appearing in a (rejected) name N. Edeb na Nestad “Houses of Healing” from Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (WR/380). Its Sindarin plural would be *edaib.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien had G. bad “building, outhouse, shed” related to G. bada- “build” (GL/21). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s Tolkien had ᴱN. adob “(a) building” from primitive ᴱ✶atāqa (PE13/136, 158, 165); in this period it also served as the infinitive of the verb N. adag- “to build, erect” (PE13/132, 158).
Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin I would use this word primarily in the sense of “a building”; for an ordinary “house” where people live, I would use S. bâr.
References ✧ Ety/TAK; WR/380
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| Edeb | plural | “houses” | ✧ WR/380 |
| edeb | plural | ✧ Ety/TAK |
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| ᴹ✶atakwē > adab | [atakwē] > [atapē] > [atape] > [atap] > [atab] > [adab] | ✧ Ety/TAK |
| ᴹ✶atakwē > edeb | [atakwī] > [atapī] > [atapi] > [etepi] > [eteip] > [eteib] > [edeib] > [edeb] | ✧ Ety/TAK |
ᴱN. adob n. “building” (Category: House)
References ✧ PE13/132, 136, 158, 165
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