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Early Quenya

anar

noun. giver

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ANA “give, send towards” ✧ QL/031

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√ANA > anar[anard] > [anar]✧ QL/031
Early Quenya [QL/031] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sári

proper name. Sun

A name for the Sun in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/186), probably a derivative of the root ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Sári).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” ✧ LT1A/Sári

Variations

  • Sāri ✧ PE14/014
Early Quenya [LRI/Sári; LT1/186; LT1/198; LT1A/Sári; LT1I/Sári; PE14/014; SMI/Sári] Group: Eldamo. Published by

auro

noun. sun

A noun appearing in Early Noldorin Word-lists as {ūru >>} auro, cognate of ᴱN. úr “sun”, and derived from {✶ourǝ >>} ✶ourū̆ (PE13/155). Elsewhere Q. Úr(in) was a name for the Sun from the 1910s up through the 1950s, but Tolkien eventually changed this to Vása (MR/198).

Changes

  • ūru → auro ✧ PE13/155

Cognates

  • En. úr “sun” ✧ PE13/155

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ourū̆ “sun” ✧ PE13/155

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ourū̆ > auro[ouru] > [ouro] > [auro]✧ PE13/155

Variations

  • ūru ✧ PE13/155 (ūru)
Early Quenya [PE13/155] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ahúra

noun. Sun

An early Qenya word for the Sun appearing in a word list from the 1920s (PE15/77). Its etymology is obscure.

Element in

Early Quenya [PE15/77] Group: Eldamo. Published by