Ad. Agathurush loc. “Greyflood”
The Adûnaic name of the river S.
Gwathló “Greyflood” (UT/263), also glossed “flood under shadow” (VT42/9). This later name does not fit the Adûnaic phonetic rules
described by Tolkien in Lowdham’s Report, since “sh” [ʃ] is not a phoneme used in Adûnaic (SD/418). It may be that Tolkien
changed his mind about the phonemes of Adûnaic, or it may be that
Agathurush had already undergone some of the phonetic changes leading to the
Westron language, which had this sound (LotR/1120). It isn’t clear how this name could be decomposed into its elements.