alcarin(qua)

adjective. glorious, brilliant, glorious, brilliant, [ᴹQ.] radiant

Changes

• alcarinqua → alcare ✧ VT44/10
• alcare → alcarin ✧ VT44/10

Cognates

• S. aglareb “glorious, brilliant, glorious, brilliant, *radiant” ✧ PE17/024; WJ/412

Derivations

• ✶aklari(n)kwā “full of glory” ✧ PE17/024

Element in

• Q. Alcarin “Glorious”
• Q. Alcarinquë “Glorious”
• Q. alcarin Vendë ar manaquenta “O glorious and blessed Virgin” ✧ VT44/10; VT44/10 ({Ven... >> Wen... >> We... >>} á Véne alcarinqua ar manque...)

Elements

Word	Gloss
alcar	“glory, splendour, radiance, brilliance”
-inqua	“-ful, complete”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶aklarinquā > alcarinqua	[aklariŋkwā] > [alkariŋkwā] > [alkariŋkwa]	✧ PE17/024

Variations

• alcarin ✧ PE17/024; RGEO/65; VT44/10
• alcarinqua ✧ PE17/024; VT44/10 (alcarinqua)
• alcare ✧ VT44/10 (alcare)
• alkarinqua ✧ WJ/412

alcarinquë

proper name. Glorious

A star (S/45) or possibly the planet Jupiter (MR/435). Its name is simply the noun form of the adjective alcarin(qua) “glorious”.

Cognates

• S. aglareb “glorious, brilliant, glorious, brilliant, *radiant” ✧ SA/aglar

Elements

Word	Gloss
alcarin(qua)	“glorious, brilliant, glorious, brilliant, [ᴹQ.] radiant”

Variations

• Alkarinque ✧ MR/435
• Alkarinquë ✧ MRI/Alkarinquë; SA/aglar

alcarin

proper name. Glorious

Tar-Alcarin was the 17th ruler of Númenor (LotR/1035, UT/222). His name is simply the shortened form of alcarin(qua) “glorious”. Alcarin “Glorious” was also a sobriquet for Atanatar II, the 16th king of Gondor (LotR/1038, 1045).

Elements

Word	Gloss
alcarin(qua)	“glorious, brilliant, glorious, brilliant, [ᴹQ.] radiant”

Variations

• Alkarin ✧ PMI/Alkarin

alcarin

glorious, brilliant

alcarin adj. "glorious, brilliant" (shorter form of alcarinqua, q.v.) (PE17:24), hence Alcarin masc. name (or title) "the Glorious", title taken by Atanatar II of Gondor, also name of one of the Kings of Númenor (Appendix A).

-inqua

glorious

-inqua adjectival ending, seen in alcarinqua "glorious" (WJ:412) from alcar "glory". Etymologically, -inqua means "-full", like "glory-full" in this case. A variant *-unqua is implied in WJ:415 (only referred to in archaic form -unkwā). "The forms using u were mainly applied to things heavy, clumsy, ugly or bad", whereas -inqua (in the same source derived from -inkwā) is neutral.