Eldamo : Middle Quenya : nún

ᴹQ. nún adv. “down below, underneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

ᴹQ. nún, adv. “down below, underneath, [ᴱQ.] beneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

An adverb in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “down below, underneath” under the root ᴹ√NŪ̆ (Ety/NU).

Conceptual Development: A glossary to one of the earlier versions of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem had ᴱQ. nuun “beneath”, probably of similar derivation (PE16/77). It appeared as a preposition in the phrase ᴱQ. ondoin moorin ninkuvaaron; nuuni silmeraana tindon, apparently “*the dark rocks will shine white, beneath the gleaming-moon shining”.

Reference ✧ Ety/NU ✧ “down below, underneath”

nu “under”

Derivations

< ᴹ√NU/UNU “*down, under” ✧ Ety/NU (NŪ̆)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√NŪ̆ > nún

[nūn]

✧ Ety/NU

ᴱQ. nún adv. “beneath” (Category: Down, Below, Beneath)

See ᴹQ. nún for discussion.

References ✧ PE16/77

Glosses

“beneath” ✧ PE16/77 (nuun)

Variations

nuun ✧ PE16/77

Inflections

nuuni

definite

✧ PE16/77

Element In

ᴱQ. ondoin mórin ninkuváron, núni silmerána tindon “*the dark rocks will shine white, beneath the gleaming-moon shining” ✧ PE16/77

Derivations

< ᴱ√NUHU “bow, bend down; stoop, sink”