Eldamo : Sindarin : gordh¹

S. gordh¹ adj. “difficult, laborious” (Category: Difficult)

S. gordh¹, adj. “difficult, laborious” (Category: Difficult)

An adjective glossed “difficult, laborious” in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 derived from the root √GUR of similar meaning (PE17/154). Tolkien indicated it was used mainly “in a very strong sense of things very painful and horrible to do”; see the entry on its prefixal form gor- for discussion. A more ordinary adjective for “hard, difficult” was dîr.

Reference ✧ PE17/154 ✧ gorð “difficult, laborious”

Cognates

Q. urda “hard, difficult, arduous” ✧ PE17/154

Derivations

< √GUR “hard, stiff, difficult, cumbrous, slow” ✧ PE17/154

Phonetic Developments

√GUR > gorð

[gurdā] > [gurda] > [gurða] > [gorða] > [gorð]

✧ PE17/154