✶Ad. plural nouns grammar.
The only actual grammatical rule we know of from Primitive Adûnaic was the formation of noun plurals. According to Tolkien, the original plural inflexion was ✶-yī or perhaps ✶-yi, which developed into -î- after medial [w] and [j] vanished before [u] and [i] (SD/424).
Examples (plural) | |||||||||
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izray+yi | ← izray | ✧ SD/424 | |||||||
khăwī | ← khăw | ✧ SD/426 | |||||||
manaw+yi | ← manaw- | ✧ SD/424 |
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