N. dúven [nd-] n. “*sunken, western” (Category: to Sink)
A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing under the root ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” with a hard-to-read gloss (Ety/NDŪ). Superficially, it seems to be a cognate of ᴹQ. númen “western”, but Christopher Tolkien read the gloss as “(?southern)”, though he marked this reading as uncertain. In a discussion on the Lambengolmor mailing list from 2005, Patrick Wynne indicated that the D was capitalized, and the gloss might actually be “*sunken”, so perhaps being another name for sunken Númenor, based on a later iteration of ᴱN. nuv-/G. num- “sink”.
References ✧ Ety/NDŪ; EtyAC/NDŪ
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| dúvin | plural | ✧ EtyAC/NDŪ |
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√NDŪ > dúven | [ndūmena] > [dūmena] > [dūmen] > [dūven] | ✧ Ety/NDŪ |
| ᴹ√NDŪ > dúvin | [ndūmeni] > [dūmeni] > [dūmini] > [dūmin] > [dūvin] | ✧ EtyAC/NDŪ |