nyar- vb. "to tell" (1st pers. aorist nyarin "I tell") (NAR2, VT45:36). Compare nyárë, nyarië, nyarna.
Quenya
nyarna
tale, saga
nyarna
noun. long epic tale, story, legend, (long epic) tale, story, legend, [ᴹQ.] saga
Derivations
- ᴹ√NYAR “tell, relate”
Element in
- Q. Cuivienyarna “Legend of the Awakening [of the Quendi]” ✧ WJ/420
- Q. nyarnamaitar “storyteller” ✧ PE17/163
- Q. sínen i·anda nyarnë metta ar taina andaurenya na quanta “*with this the long tale ends and my extended long day is complete” ✧ Minor-Doc/1955-CT
- ᴺQ. sinyarna “novel”
Variations
- nyarne ✧ Minor-Doc/1955-CT
nyar-
to tell
nyárë
tale, saga, history
nyárë noun "tale, saga, history". Compounded in Eldanyárë "History of the Elves", lumenyárë "history, chronological account" (NAR2, LR:199). Compare nyarië, nyarna.
quenta
tale
quenta ("q")noun "tale" (KWET), "narrative, story" (VT39:16); Quenta Silmarillion "the Story/Tale of the Silmarils", also Quenta Eldalien "History of the Elves" (SD:303), notice "Qenya" genitive in -n in the latter title. Quenta is also translated "account", as in Valaquenta "Account of the Valar".
nyarna noun "tale, saga" (NAR2), compounded in nyarmamaitar noun "storyteller" (PE17:163), literally *"tale-artist" (see maitar).