ré noun "day" (of the sun), a full 24-hour cycle (Appendix D) composed of aurë (day, daylight) and lómë "night" (VT49:45). Short -rë in compounds like Ringarë (q.v.). Allative rénna (VT49:45).
Quenya
ar
day
ré
day
Ae
day
Ae (Quenya?) noun "day" (LEP/LEPEN/LEPEK - ae was written over ar [# 2] in the names of the Valinorean week, but ar was not struck out.)
ala
day
[ala (7) noun "day", also alan "daytime". The forms allen, alanen listed after these words could be inflected forms of them, genitive "of daytime", constracted (allen = al'nen) and uncontracted. However, Tolkien struck out all of this (VT45:13).]
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
arin
morning
arin noun "morning" (AR1)
arinya
morning
arinya adj. "morning" in the adjectival sense (e.g. *arinya árë "morning sun") and hence "early" (AR1, VT45:6)
sintamo
smith
sintamo noun "smith" (PE17:107-108), cf. more usual variant tamo, q.v.
sintamo
noun. smith
Derivations
- ✶sinkitamo “smith” ✧ PE17/108
Elements
Word Gloss tamo “smith, builder” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶sinkitamo > sintamo [siŋkitamo] > [sintamo] ✧ PE17/108
árë
day
árë noun "day" (PM:127) or "sunlight" (SA:arien). Stem ári- _(PE17:126, where the word is further defined as "warmth, especially of the sun, sunlight"). Also name of tengwa #31; cf. also ar # 2. Originally pronounced ázë; when /z/ merged with /r/, the letter became superfluous and was given the new value ss, hence it was re-named essë (Appendix E)_. Also árë nuquerna *"árë reversed", name of tengwa #32, similar to normal árë but turned upside down (Appendix E). See also ilyázëa, ilyárëa under ilya. In the Etymologies, this word has a short initial vowel: arë pl. ari (AR1)
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
ar (2) noun "day" (PE17:148), apparently short for árë, occurring in the names of the Valinorean week listed below. Tolkien indicated that ar in these names could also be arë when the following element begins in a consonant (VT45:27). Usually the word for "day" in LotR-style Quenya is rather aurë (or ré), q.v.