Early Primitive Elvish
mara
root. *sand, soil
Changes
MAŘA²→ MARA ✧ QL/059Derivatives
Variations
- mar ✧ GL/56
- mar- ✧ GL/58
- MARA ✧ QL/059 (MARA)
- MAŘA² ✧ QL/059 (
MAŘA²)
mbara
root. dwell, live
Derivatives
- Eq. mara- “to dwell, live” ✧ QL/063
- Eq. mar “house, home, dwelling (of men); -land, the Earth” ✧ QL/060
- En. barth “world, earth”
- G. mara- “to dwell” ✧ GL/56
- G. bar “home, dwelling” ✧ LT1A/Eldamar
- G. bara “home, cottage”
- G. bar(n)a- “to dwell in (a land), till (land)”
- G. barn “tilled, inhabited”
- G. brann “dwelling, hall”
- G. barthi “at home, home”
Element in
- Eq. Ilvaran “Hall of the Moon King”
Variations
- mbara ✧ GL/56
- mbar ✧ LT1A/Eldamar
gu̯ara-
verb. to dwell
Derivations
- ᴱ√ẆAÐA “dwell”
Derivatives
- G. brann “dwelling, hall” ✧ GL/38
ẇaða
root. dwell
Changes
W̯AŘA→ ẆAÐA ✧ QL/102Derivatives
Variations
- gu̯ađ ✧ GL/46 (
gu̯ađ)- W̯AŘA ✧ QL/102 (
W̯AŘA)
A root appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as root {ᴱ√MAŘA² >>} ᴱ√MARA that Tolkien indicated was a dialectical variation or byform of ᴱ√MṚŘṚ [MṚÐṚ] “grind”, with a single derivative: ᴱQ. marilla “pearl” (QL/59). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, G. brithla “pearl” was most likely a derivative of ᴱ√MṚÐṚ (GL/24). However, in the m-section of GL Tolkien said “mar and môr probably conceal two roots and a confusion [with] mbara”, with various apparent derivatives of mar- such as G. mar “Earth, ground, soil”, G. marol “sand” and G. Môr “the Earth” (GL/56). Tolkien also had G. mara- “dwell”, but it appeared before a variant (m)bara and so likely was derived from ᴱ√MBARA “dwell, live” as mentioned in the Qenya Lexicon (QL/60). As for ᴱ√MARA² itself, it may have meant “✱sand, soil”.