Qenya
lar
noun. fat, riches [richness?], fat, richness, riches
Changes
Lar→ lar “Fortune (good), prosperity, bliss” ✧ EtyAC/LARDerivations
- ᴹ√LAR “rich, fat” ✧ EtyAC/LAR; EtyAC/LAR
Element in
- ᴹQ. lárea “fat, rich” ✧ EtyAC/LAR (
lára/lárea); EtyAC/LARPhonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√LAR/LAS > Lar [lar] ✧ EtyAC/LAR ᴹ√LAR > lar [lar] ✧ EtyAC/LAR Variations
- Lar ✧ EtyAC/LAR (
Lar)
lá-
verb. to not be
Derivations
- ᴹ√LA “no, not; to be not” ✧ PE22/126
Element in
- ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestanen ela en ni túlie/karnet “if he had asked me (he did not), I should have come/made it” ✧ PE22/121
- ᴹQ. á kela karit “do not make it!” ✧ PE22/127
- ᴹQ. á kela naikea “don’t be cruel” ✧ PE22/126
- ᴹQ. á lá “don’t do it” ✧ PE22/106
- ᴹQ. (á) láte “don’t do it!” ✧ PE22/126
- ᴹQ. á le·láte “{now} don’t you do it!” ✧ PE22/106
- ᴹQ. auve e·kestanen (ela!) “would he have asked me!” ✧ PE22/121
- ᴹQ. helalthi menne kare/helar menne karilthi “they did not mean to make them” ✧ PE22/127; PE22/127
- ᴹQ. helávate mate “they will not eat it” ✧ PE22/127
- ᴹQ. leláne tule “you did not come” ✧ PE22/127
- ᴹQ. melalti kára/melar káralti “we are not making them” ✧ PE22/127; PE22/127
- ᴹQ. me·láner fasta sa yára Túro “we were not pleased [that old Túro...]” ✧ PE22/119
- ᴹQ. me·le·lávanelti kare “we were not going to make them for you” ✧ PE22/127
- ᴹQ. nila karit “I do not make it” ✧ PE22/127
- ᴹQ. tyavie la tyazie “(proverb) tasting is not necessarily liking” ✧ PE22/119
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√LĀ > lá [lā-] ✧ PE22/126 Variations
- la ✧ PE22/121; PE22/126; PE22/127
- lá ✧ PE22/126
ména
noun. region
Derivations
- ᴹ√MEN “go, proceed” ✧ Ety/MEN
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MEN > ména [mēna] ✧ Ety/MEN
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fat, riches” derived from the root ᴹ√LAR “rich, fat” (EtyAC/LAR). In their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies, Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne suggest that the gloss “riches” was perhaps intended to be “richness” since another word ᴹQ. larma in the same entry was originally glossed “fat, richness” before being revised to “(pig?)-fat, flesh”.
Conceptual Development: When this entry was first written, the root forms were ᴹ√LAR/LAS and the gloss of lar was “Fortune (good), prosperity, Bliss” (EtyAC/LAR). When Tolkien updated this root to be “fat, rich” he seems to have restored the early root ᴱ√LARA from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s whose derivatives also had to do with “fat” (QL/51).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word to refer to fat (fattiness) or richness in the taste of food as in “the richness (lar) of the soup”. I would use ᴹQ. larma to refer to specific piece of fat within flesh as in “cut the fat (larma) from the meat”.