Anar
sun
anar
noun. Sun
The most common Quenya name for the Sun derived from primitive ✶Anār, an augmented form of the root √NAR “fire” (Let/425; PE17/38; Ety/ANÁR; SD/302, 306).
Conceptual Development: This term appeared in Silmarillion drafts of the 1930s with the gloss “Heart of Flame” (LR/240) and as ᴹQ. Anar “sun” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, already with the derivation given above (Ety/ANÁR, NAR¹).
Cognates
- S. Anor “Sun” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Amanar “Yule”
- Q. Anarcalin “*Sun-Bright” ✧ PE21/86
- Q. Anar caluva tielyanna “The sun shall shine upon your path” ✧ UT/022
- Q. Anardil “*Lover of the Sun” ✧ PE17/152
- Q. Anárion “*Son of the Sun” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. anar púrëa tihta “a bleared sun blinking” ✧ MC/222; MC/222
- Q. Anarríma “*Sun Border”
- Q. Anarya “Sunday, (lit.) Sun-day”
- Q. ceuranar “new sun after solstice”
- Q. coranar “(solar) year, (lit.) sun-round”
- ᴺQ. táranar “noon, (lit.) high-sun”
- ᴺQ. oranar “noon, (lit.) above Sun”
- ᴺQ. sardanar “corundum, (lit.) hard sun”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √NAR > Anar [anār] > [anar] ✧ Let/425 √(A)NAR > anā̆r [anār] > [anar] ✧ PE17/038 ✶(a)nar > Anar [anār] > [anar] ✧ SA/nár Variations
- anar ✧ MC/222; PE17/152
- anā̆r ✧ PE17/038
ceuranar
new sun after solstice
ceuranar ("k")noun "new sun after solstice" (VT48:7), apparently a compound ceura or ceurë + anar, q.v.
ceuranar
noun. new sun after solstice
A word appearing in notes from the late 1960s glossed “new sun after solstice” (VT48/7), a combination of Q. ceura “renewed” and Q. Anar “Sun”.
Elements
Word Gloss ceura “renewed” Anar “Sun” Variations
- keuranar ✧ VT48/07
Narsil
sun
Narsil (Þ) noun the sword of Elendil, compound of the stems seen in Anar "Sun" and Isil "Moon"; see Letters:425 for etymology
anto
giver
anto (2) noun "giver" (masc.) (ANA1)
antë
giver
antë noun "giver" (f.) (ANA1)
Calaventë
sun
Calaventë _("k")_noun "Sun" (LT1:254)
Calavénë
sun
Calavénë _("k")_noun "Sun" (lit. "light-vessel", "light-dish") (LT1:254)
úr(in)
proper name. Sun
A late remnant of earlier names for the Sun: ᴱQ. Ûr and ᴹQ. Úrin. In Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s, this name was changed from Úrin >> Naira >> Vása (MR/198), but the form Úr(in) occasionally appeared in some later writings (PE17/148, MR/377). This name was a derivative of the root √UR “heat, be hot” (PE17/148).
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this name was ᴱQ. Ûr, Ur or Úri “Sun”, but literally meaning “Fire” (LT1/187, QL/98). The name became ᴹQ. Úrin in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/240). It was rejected in The Etymologies along with the root form ᴹ√UR, but reappeared sometimes in later writing as noted above.
Changes
Úrin→ Naira ✧ MR/198Derivations
- √UR “heat, be hot” ✧ PE17/148
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √UR > Úrin [ūrin] ✧ PE17/148 Variations
- Úrin ✧ MR/198 (
Úrin); MRI/Úr; PE17/148- Úr ✧ MR/377; MRI/Úr
úri
sun
úri noun "sun" (MC:214, 221; this is "Qenya"); genitive úrio "sun's" (MC:216)
Anar noun "Sun" (ANÁR, NAR1, SA:nár; UT:22 cf. 51); anar "a sun" (Markirya); Anarinya "my Sun" (FS). See also ceuranar, Úr-anar. (According to VT45:6, Tolkien in the Etymologies mentioned anar "sun" as the name of the short vowel carrier of the Tengwar writing system; it would be the first letter if anar is written in Quenya mode Tengwar.) Compounded in the masc. name Anárion "Sun-son" (Isildur's brother, also the Númenorean king Tar-Anárion, UT:210); also in Anardil "Sun-friend" (Appendix A), a name also occurring in the form Anardilya with a suffix of endearment (UT:174, 418). Anarya noun second day of the Eldarin six-day week, dedicated to the Sun (Appendix D). Anarríma name of a constellation: *"Sun-border"??? (Silm; cf. ríma)