S. Levain Tad-dail coll. “Petty Dwarves, (lit.) Two-legged Animals”
A name the Sindarin used for the Petty Dwarves when they first believed they were only animals, a combination of the plural of lavan “animal” and the plural of tad-dal “two-legged” (WJ/388).
References ✧ WJ/388; WJI/Levain Tad-dail
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Inflections
| Levain Tad-dail | plural | “Two-legged Animals” | ✧ WJI/Levain Tad-dail |
Elements
| lavan | “animal” | plural | ✧ WJ/388 (Levain) |
| #tad-dal | “two-legged” | plural | ✧ WJ/388 (tad-dail); WJI/Levain Tad-dail (Tad-dail) |