Amarië fem. name; perhaps derived from mára "good" with prefixing of the stem-vowel and the feminine ending -ië (Silm)
Quenya
manë
good (moral)
Amarië
good
mára
adjective. good
ala-
good
ala- (3), also al-, a prefix expressing "good" or "well" (PE17:146), as in alaquenta (q.v.) Whether Tolkien imagined this ending to coexist with the negative prefix of the same form (#2 above) is unclear and perhaps dubious.
manë
adjective. good (moral, not evil)
@@@ used in NQNT
Derivations
- √MAN “good (morally), blessed, holy, unmarred, free from evil, good (morally), blessed, holy, unmarred, free from evil; [ᴹ√] holy spirit”
manë adj. "good (moral)" (sc. *"good in a moral sense") (LT1:260, VT49:26)