S. tâd num. card. “two” (Category: Two)
The usual Sindarin word for “two” derived from ✶tata, a variant of √ATATA that was the basis for Q. atta “two” (PE17/14; VT42/27; Ety/TATA). It appears with both a short vowel as tad and a long vowel as tâd. I think the long-vowel form is the most correct one, but the short-vowel form is used for prefixes or when the word is not emphasized in a phrase.
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. atha “two”, but this was deleted and revised to G. atha as the “pl. 3rd person pronoun” (GL/20) and no new word for “two” was given.
References ✧ PE17/14, 95; VT42/25-27; VT48/6
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| ✶atata > (a)táta > tad | [atata] ? [tata] > [tat] > [tad] > [tād] | ✧ VT42/27 |
N. tâd num. card. “two” (Category: Two)
References ✧ Ety/AT(AT), TATA
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| ᴹ√TATA > tâd | [tata] > [tat] > [tad] > [tād] | ✧ Ety/TATA |
G. atha² num. card. “two”
Reference ✧ GL/20 ✧ atha “two”
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