Ilk. genitive grammar.
There are a few attested genitive inflections of Ilkorin words in The Etymologies, most of them as elements in compounds. The singular genitive inflections end in the suffix -a and the plural inflections in -ion. Based on the example Dor. naugol → naugla (Ety/NAUK), it seems the genitive suffix could cause vowel loss (syncope) just as with plural nouns. Based on the example Ilk. thorn → thurnion (Ety/THOR), the genitive plural could also cause i-affection in the Ilkorin dialect like plural nouns as well, though not in the Doriathrin dialect: Dor. than → thanion (LR/405).
The genitive inflection itself is attested as -a(n) (Ety/NAUK). According to that entry, the genitive generally preceded the modified noun in the Doriathrin dialect. This rule may have only applied to that dialect, since there are several counter-examples in general Ilkorin: Ilk. Tor Tinduma and Ilk. Torthurnion. The form -a(n) hints that the genitive might sometimes be expressed with the suffix -n, perhaps after nouns ending in a vowel. If so, this would make the Ilkorin genitive inflection almost the same as the earlier Gnomish genitive, which used -a/-ion after nouns ending in consonants and -n/-thon after nouns ending in vowels (GG/10).
Examples (genitive) | |||||||||
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Dor. Naugla | ← naugol | ⇒ Nauglamîr | ✧ Ety/NAUK | ||||||
Dor. Golda | ← (n)gold | ⇒ Goldamir | ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD | ||||||
Ilk. Tinduma | “Twilight” | [← tindum] | ⇒ Tor Tinduma | ✧ Ety/THIN | |||||
Ilk. Gwethion | [← gwath] | plural | ⇒ Urthin Gwethion | ✧ EtyAC/WATH | |||||
Dor. region | ← regin (plural) | plural | ⇒ Region | ✧ Ety/ERÉK | |||||
Ilk. thonion | “of pines” | ← thōn | plural | ⇒ Dor-thonion | ✧ Ety/THŌN | ||||
Dor. thanion | “of pines” | ← than | plural | ⇒ Dorthanion | ✧ LR/405 | ||||
Ilk. #thurnion | “of Eagles” | ← thorn | plural | ⇒ Torthurnion | ✧ Ety/THOR |
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Element In