G. pont n. “the back, reverse or far side” (Category: Behind, At the Rear)
- ⚠️G. pont, n. “the back, reverse or far side” (Category: Behind, At the Rear)
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “the back, reverse or far side” (GL/64), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√POT-I having to do with “back, behind” (QL/75).
References ✧ GL/23, 64
Glosses
- “the back, reverse or far side” ✧ GL/64
Related
- bod “behind, back, of time ago, ‘a while back’” [is the] unaccented form of pont ✧ GL/23
- Bont “back(wards)” [is an] atonic development, cp. pont ✧ GL/23
Element In
- G. abont “back; backwards”
- G. bont “back(wards)”
- G. ponta- “to turn round, turn back, retrace” ✧ GL/64
Derivations
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ᴱ√POT-I “*back, behind, after”