Ilk. dôn n. “back” (Category: Back)
A Doriathrin word for “back” explicitly marked as a noun (Ety/NDAN). Its primitive form might have been *✶ndān, so that the primitive long [ā] became [ō] and the initial nasal [n] was lost before the stop (as suggested by Helge Fauskanger, AL-Doriathrin/dôn).
Reference ✧ Ety/NDAN ✧ Dor. dôn “back”
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√NDAN > dôn | [ndān] > [ndōn] > [dōn] | ✧ Ety/NDAN |