sundóma

Sundóma is the Quenya name of the central radical vowel in a sundo, an etymological root.

In the process of a language, the sundóma took part in the following phenomena:

Intensification

prefixing to a sundo its sundóma, usually together with its lengthening either in the first or in the last position.

• LAK- > Á-LAK
• NAR- > A-NÁR > Anar
• THIL- > I-THIL > Isil
• MAN- > A-MAN > Aman

A infixion

adding an a before the sundóma I creating an ohlon (diphthong):

• SLIW- > slaiwâ
• THUS- > thausâ

I/Y infixion

putting an i/y after the sundóma creating an ohlon (less frequently occurred than the previous one):

• NAK- > NAYKA-
• WAWA- > WAIWA-

Etymology

The word sundóma means "root-vowel", from sundo "root" and óma "voice".