Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : NDU

√NDU root. “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down”

√NDU root. “down, under, below; sink, descend, go down, [ᴹ√] set (of Sun)”: ᴱ√SUQU “*descend”

See √NŪ/UNU for discussion.

References ✧ Let/303, 361; PE17/64, 152, 167, 169, 188; PE22/129, 163; SA/andúnë

Glosses

“below, down, descend” ✧ Let/361
“down” ✧ PE22/163 (undu/ndu)
“down, from on high” ✧ SA/andúnë
“going down” ✧ Let/303 (ndū)
“sink, go down” ✧ PE17/64 (NDŪ); PE17/169 (NDŪ)
“sink/down” ✧ PE22/129
“under, down” ✧ PE17/152; PE17/188

Variations

NDU ✧ Let/361; PE17/152; PE17/188; PE22/129; SA/andúnë
ndū ✧ Let/303; PE17/64; PE17/169
NDU/NDŪ ✧ PE17/167
undu/ndu ✧ PE22/163

UNU “under, down” ✧ PE17/152
UNU “under, down” ✧ PE17/188

Elements

NŪ/UNU

“down, under; go down, sink”

strengthened

Derivatives

> Ad. *-nud “on”
> ✶ṇdūnē “sunset”
- > Q. andúnë “sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west” ✧ PE19/77
  - ⇒ 4 compounds
> ✶(n)dūrā ✧ PE17/152
- > S. dûr “dark (with evil implications), gloomy, hellish” ✧ PE17/152
  - ⇒ 8 compounds
> ✶ndūtā- “to cause to sink”
- > ᴺS. !dúda- “to lower [something]”
- > Q. núta- “to lower”
  - ⇒ Q. nútaite “?lowering (naturally), degrading” ✧ PE22/156
  - ⇒ Q. nútima “*lowerable” ✧ PE22/156
> ✶ndūya- “to descend” ✧ PE22/163
- > ᴺS. !duia- “to descend, sink, set [of sun]”
- > Q. núya- “to descend” ✧ PE22/163
> Q. andú- “going down, setting (of sun), west”
- ⇒ 4 compounds
> Q. andúnë “sunset, evening, (orig.) going down; west” ✧ PE17/64; SA/andúnë
- ⇒ 4 compounds
> Q. númen “west, direction or region of the sunset, occident, (lit.) going down” ✧ Let/361; Let/361; SA/andúnë
- ⇒ 10 compounds
> S. annûn “sunset, west; (lit.) going down” ✧ PE17/64; SA/andúnë
- ⇒ 5 compounds
> S. dûn “west” ✧ SA/andúnë
- > Ad. adûn “west, westward” ✧ PE17/18
  - ⇒ 11 compounds
- ⇒ ᴺS. !dúnen “western”
  - ⇒ ᴺS. !fordúnen “northwestern”
  - ⇒ ᴺS. !hardúnen “southwestern”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !fordûn “northwest”
- ⇒ ᴺS. !hardûn “southwest”
- ⇒ S. Dúnadan “Man of the West” ✧ PE17/18; SA/andúnë
  - ⇒ S. Emyn Hen Dúnadan “*Hills of the Eye of the Dúnadan” ✧ PM/186
- ⇒ S. Dúnedel
- ⇒ S. Dúnedhel “West-Elf” ✧ WJ/378
- ⇒ S. Dúneglon
> S. dúnad “descent”
- ⇒ S. Dúnad in Gyrth “Descent of the Dead” ✧ NM/364

ᴹ√NDŪ root. “go down, sink, set (of Sun)”

See √NŪ/UNU for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/DOƷ, NDEW, NDŪ, NU, RŌ, UNU; PE22/127

Glosses

“down” ✧ Ety/RŌ
“go down, sink, set (of Sun)” ✧ Ety/NDŪ

Variations

NDŪ ✧ Ety/DOƷ; Ety/NDEW; Ety/NDŪ; Ety/NU; Ety/RŌ; Ety/UNU; PE22/127 (NDŪ)

NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” is associated in N with DOƷ “night” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” is associated in N with NDEW ✧ Ety/NDŪ
NDŪ “down” is the opposite of RŌ “rise” ✧ Ety/RŌ
NDEW “follow, come behind” is in N confused with NDŪ ✧ Ety/NDEW
NDUR “bow down, bend (low), obey, serve” was influenced by NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
N. dû “night-fall, late evening” is associated with NDŪ ✧ Ety/DOƷ

Inflections

NDŪ	strengthened	“go down, sink, set (of Sun)”	✧ Ety/NDŪ
NDŪ	strengthened		✧ Ety/NU; Ety/UNU

Derivatives

> ᴹ✶ndūne “west” ✧ EtyAC/NDŪ
- > N. dûn “west” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
  - ⇒ N. Dunhirion “?West Lord Land”
  - ⇒ N. Eldûn “*West-star”
> ᴹ✶ṇdūnē “sunset” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
- > ᴹQ. andúne “sunset” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. Andúnie “Sunset(land)” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
- > N. annûn “west” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
> ᴹQ. Nú “Moon”
⇒ ᴹQ. Nuaran “*West-king”
- ⇒ ᴹQ. Nuaran Númenen “Lord of the West” ✧ LR/60
⇒ ᴹQ. númen “west” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
- ⇒ 12 compounds
> ᴹQ. #núre “night”
> ᴹQ. núta- “to set, sink (of Sun or Moon)” ✧ Ety/NDŪ
> ᴹQ. undo “down, low down” ✧ PE22/127
> ᴹQ. undu “down, under, beneath” ✧ PE22/127
- ⇒ ᴹQ. unutikse “dot or point placed below the line of writing” ✧ EtyAC/UNU
> ᴹQ. unta- “to come down, descend” ✧ PE22/127
> N. dúven “*sunken, western” ✧ Ety/NDŪ; EtyAC/NDŪ