A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with stem form hun- and gloss “earth” (QL/39). It might be a later iteration of ᴱQ. han “ground, earth” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/39), and if so then hún might also be used as “✱ground”. I think it is useful to assume so for purposes of Neo-Quenya, as the other attested word for “ground”, Q. talan, is probably used more often for “floor”, including floors above the ground level.
Qenya
ambar
noun. fate
ambar
noun. Earth, World
Cognates
- N. amar “Earth” ✧ Ety/MBAR
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Ambarenya “Middle-earth” ✧ Ety/MBAR; SM/241
- ᴹQ. Ambarkanta “Shape of the World” ✧ SM/235
- ᴹQ. Sinome nimaruva, yo hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta “Here will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world” ✧ SD/056
- ᴹQ. Talmar Ambaren “Roots of the Earth” ✧ SM/241
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MBAR > a-mbar [ambara] ✧ Ety/MBAR ᴹ√[?mbar] > ambar [ambara] ✧ EtyAC/SIL Variations
- a-mbar ✧ Ety/MBAR
- ambaron ✧ EtyAC/MBAR
- ambar ✧ EtyAC/MBAR; EtyAC/SIL; SM/241
ambor
noun. breast, breast, *chest
Derivations
- ᴹ✶amƀus “breast” ✧ PE21/33
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶amƀus- > ambor [amβus] > [ambus] > [ambur] > [ambor] ✧ PE21/33
umbar
noun. fate, doom
Cognates
- N. ammarth “fate, doom” ✧ Ety/MBARAT
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Turambar “Master of Fate, Conqueror of Fate” ✧ Ety/MBARAT (
Turumbar)Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MBARAT > umbar [ṃbarta] > [ṃbart] > [umbart] > [umbar] ✧ Ety/MBARAT ᴹ✶ṃbárt- > umbar [ṃbarta] > [ṃbart] > [umbart] > [umbar] ✧ EtyAC/A Variations
- ambar ✧ PE21/33; PE21/33
ama
adverb. up
am-
prefix. up
Derivations
- ᴹ√AM “up” ✧ Ety/AM²
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√AM² > am- [am-] ✧ Ety/AM²
arda
place name. Earth, world
Element in
- ᴹQ. Herunúmen arda sakkante lenéme Ilúvatáren “the Lord of the West [Manwe] broke the world by leave of Ilúvatar” ✧ SD/246; SD/310
Elements
Word Gloss arda “realm, region” Variations
- arda ✧ SD/246; SD/310
hún
noun. earth, earth, *ground
Variations
- hun ✧ PE21/19
The word ᴹQ. ambor “breast” appeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, derived from ᴹ✶amƀus (PE21/33). This word shows the Early Qenya sound change whereby [[eq|final [s] became [r]]]; in Tolkien’s later writings this change applied mainly to intervocalic [s]. This word also had the unusual development of u to o in final syllables, a sound change Tolkien used for Quenya in the Declension of Nouns but nowhere else.
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien gave ᴱQ. ambar “breast” with stems ambar- or ambas- (QL/30); the word also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa, but only with the stem ambas- (PME/30). ᴱQ. ambos was glossed “breast” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/136), and in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, ᴱQ. ambos (ambost-) appeared as a word related to both ᴱN. bost “back, from shoulder to shoulder” and ᴱN. amoth “shoulder” (PE13/137, 139, 159), the latter with primitive forms ᴱ✶a-mbod-t’ (PE13/137) or ᴱ✶a-mbos-t (PE13/159).
ᴱQ. ambar reappeared in the phrase ᴱQ. níve qímari ringa ambar “the pale phantoms in her cold bosom” from the Oilima Markirya poem written around 1930. Early 1930s ᴹQ. ambor seems to be the last published iteration of this word, as discussed above.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. ambos (ambor-) “breast, chest” to fit better with later Quenya phonology. It might be an ancient combination of √AM “up” and ᴹ√OS “around”, perhaps with the original sense “upper enclosure (of the body)”.