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S. hadhu n. “seat” (Category: Chair)

S. hadhu, n. “seat, *chair” (Category: Chair)

A word appearing as haðw “seat” in Late Notes on Verb Structure from 1969 derived from primitive ✶khadmā (PE22/148). In more typical Sindarin orthography it would be hadhu. Based on earlier versions of this word, it may mean “*chair” as well (see below).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. dorn “seat” (GL/19), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√ÐORO “sit” (QL/85). In Early Noldorin Word-lists this became ᴱN. {hód >>} haud “seat” (PE13/147).

A draft entry to The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. hand “seat” and N. hanw “chair” derived from the root ᴹ√KHAD (EtyAC/KHAM). Tolkien updated this root form to ᴹ√KHAM “sit” with a noun form N. ham or hanw, with a hard-to-read gloss that was probably “?chair” (Ety/KHAM; EtyAC/KHAM). Tolkien then created yet another root ᴹ√KHAM² “call to, summon”, saying that “KHAM sit (replacing KHAD, cancelled)”, so apparently the root for “sit” reverted back to KHAD. This is supported by the 1969 “seat” word haðw seen above.

Reference ✧ PE22/148 ✧ haðw “seat”

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khadmā > chaðw > haðw [kʰadmā] > [kʰadma] > [xadma] > [xaðma] > [xaðm] > [haðm] > [haðv] > [haðw] > [haðu] ✧ PE22/148

N. hanw n. “?chair” (Category: Chair)

See S. hadhu for discussion.

References ✧ EtyAC/KHAM

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ᴹ✶hamwa > ham/hanw [kʰamwa] > [kʰanwa] > [xanwa] > [xanw] > [hanw] > [hanu] ✧ EtyAC/KHAM

N. ?hand n. “seat”

See S. hadhu for discussion.

Reference ✧ EtyAC/KHAM ✧ “seat”

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ᴹ√KHAD > ?hand [kʰanda] > [xanda] > [xand] > [hand] ✧ EtyAC/KHAM

ᴱN. haud n. “seat” (Category: Chair)

See S. hadhu for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/147, 155-156

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G. dorn n. “seat” (Category: Chair)

See S. hadhu for discussion.

References ✧ GL/19, 30

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