nár noun "flame", also nárë (NAR1).Translated "fire" in some names, see Aicanár(o), Fëanáro (where nár apparently has the masculine ending -o added to it). According to PE17:183, nár- is "fire as an element" (a concrete fire or blaze is rather called a ruinë).
Quenya
nár
noun. fire (as an element), fire (as an element); [ᴹQ.] flame
Cognates
- S. naur “fire, fire, [N.] flame” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár
Derivations
- √NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ PE17/038
Element in
- Q. Aicanáro “Fell Fire; Sharp Flame” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. Artanáro “*Noble Fire”
- Q. Fëanáro “Spirit of Fire” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. Nárië “June, *Fire-ness”
- Q. Narmacil “*Fire-sword”
- Q. Narquelië “October, Sun-fading” ✧ LotR/1110
- ᴹQ. Narqelion “Fire-fading, Autumn”
- ᴺQ. narrundo “torch”
- Q. Narsil “Red and White Flame” ✧ PE17/029; SA/nár
- ᴺQ. nartanwë “firework”
- Q. Narvinyë “January, *New-fire”
- Q. Narya “(Ring) of Fire” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. Telemnar “*Silver Fire”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √(A)NAR > nár [nār] ✧ PE17/038 Variations
- Nar ✧ LotR/1110 (Nar)
- nār- ✧ PE17/183
nár
flame
nárë
flame
nárë, also short nár, noun "flame" (NAR1, Narqelion). Translated "fire" in some names, see Aicanáro, Fëanáro (where nár apparently has the masculine ending -o, though in the latter name it may also be the genitive ending since Fëa-náro** is translated "Spirit of Fire"). At one point, Tolkien mentioned "nār-" as the word for "fire (as an element)" (PE17:183). Cf. ruinë** as the word for "a fire" (a concrete instance of fire) in the same source.
ruinë
fire, a blaze
ruinë noun "a fire, a blaze" (PE17:183). Compare nárë.
sá
fire
sá noun "fire" (LT1:265; "Qenya" spelling sâ. Rather nárë in LotR-style Quenya.)
uru
fire
uru noun "fire" (LT1:271)
velca
flame
velca ("k") noun "flame" (LT1:260; nár, nárë would be the normal word in Tolkien's later Quenya)
úr
fire
úr noun "fire" (UR)This stem was struck out in Etym, but a word that must be derived from it occurs in LotR, so it seems that Tolkien restored it. Early "Qenya" also has Ûr, noun "the Sun" (also Úri, Úrinci ("k"), Urwen) (LT1:271). Cf. Úri.
The basic Quenya word for “fire” derived from the root √NAR of the same meaning (PE17/29, 38), more specifically “fire as an element” or as a force or abstract concept (PE17/183), versus ruinë “a fire, a blaze” which is an individual fire or blaze in the physical world. In The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared as ᴹQ. nár or náre “flame” derived from the root ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” (Ety/NAR¹).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had as a derivative of the root ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” the word ᴱQ. Sā “Fire, especially in temples, etc. A mystic name identified with Holy Ghost” (QL/81), and this “mystic name” was also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/81). Thus it seems ᴱQ. sá was “mystic fire”, as opposed to ᴱQ. uru which was ordinary “fire” (QL/98).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word as [ᴹQ.] náre as an independent word, and use nár or nar in compounds only. This helps keep it distinct from nár the plural of ná- “to be”.