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*ôbrôth n.  (Strong-I Neuter) “fore-cutting”

Refers to the wake before a boat or ship.  Why Tolkien wrote it as obroth and so violated the technical rules of his original conception of d-Adûnaic is unknown.  Hypothetically, it may have been written to show that to long versions of the same vowel next to each other (ignoring the consonants) would be pronounced as two short ones, since together vocally, they make a longer whole (in other words, ôbrôth is pronounced as obroth.  Again, this is purely hypothesis).

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