Qenya
móre
noun. blackness, dark, night
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. morilinde “nightingale” ✧ Ety/MOR
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mǭri > móre [mǭri] > [mǭre] > [mōre] ✧ EtyAC/MOR
more
adjective. black, dark
Cognates
- N. môr “black” ✧ Ety/MOR
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶mori > more [mori] > [more] ✧ Ety/MOR
núre
noun. night
Derivations
- ᴹ√NDŪ “go down, sink, set (of Sun)”
Element in
- ᴹQ. Rana núresse orta silia; en e·orta silia! “The Moon at night rises shining; there it rises shining!” ✧ PE22/100
hui
proper name. Night
Derivations
- ᴹ√PHUY “*darkness” ✧ Ety/PHUY
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√PHUY > Fui > Hui [pʰui] > [ɸui] > [hui] ✧ Ety/PHUY
A name for (Primordial?) Night appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√PHUY, along with its (archaic?) variant Fui (Ety/PHUY).
Conceptual Development: This name is most likely a remnant of the name ᴱQ. Fui from the earliest Lost Tales, where it was another name for the goddess ᴱQ. Nienna (LT1/66, LT1A/Fui). According to the Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons from the 1910s, this earlier version of the name is derived from the root ᴱ√ǶUẎU (GL/36, QL/38).