nyano, see nyarro
Quenya
nyarro
rat
nyano
nyano
Sindarin
nâr
rat
nâr (construct nar, pl. nair)
nâr
rat
(construct nar, pl. nair)
Noldorin
nâr
noun. rat
nâr
noun. rat
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “rat” derived from primitive ᴹ✶nyadrō under the root ᴹ√NYAD “gnaw” (Ety/NYAD). Tolkien gave the intermediate form naðr, but it is not clear why the ð vanished; compare N. nadhor “pasture” < ᴹ√NAD (< ✱nadrō?), and indeed Tolkien had a variant archaic form naðor “rat” which shows the normal phonetic developments (EtyAC/NYAD).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. nyarro “rat” ✧ Ety/NYAD
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources On. naðr > nâr [naðr] > [nâr] ✧ Ety/NYAD
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Qenya
nyarro
noun. rat
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “rat” derived from primitive ᴹ✶nyadrō under the root ᴹ√NYAD “gnaw” (Ety/NYAD). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, the form was incorrectly given as nyano (LR/379), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to nyarro in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/7).
Cognates
- N. nâr “rat” ✧ Ety/NYAD
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺQ. andanyarro “weasel, ferret, mink, stoat, polecat, (lit.) long-rat”
- ᴺQ. carastanyarro “beaver, (lit.) build-rat”
- ᴺQ. nyarrincë “mouse”
- ᴺQ. poco(lle)nyarro “opossum, (lit.) pouch-rat”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶nyadrō > nyarro [njadrō] > [njaðrō] > [njarrō] > [njarro] ✧ Ety/NYAD Variations
- nyano ✧ EtyAC/NYAD
Old Noldorin
nadhr
noun. rat
Derivations
Derivatives
- N. nâr “rat” ✧ Ety/NYAD
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶nyadrō > naðr > naðor [njadrō] > [nadrō] > [nadro] > [naðro] > [naðr] > [naðor] ✧ Ety/NYAD Variations
- naðr ✧ Ety/NYAD
- naðor ✧ EtyAC/NYAD
Middle Primitive Elvish
nyadrō
noun. rat
Derivations
- ᴹ√NYAD “gnaw” ✧ Ety/NYAD
Derivatives
nyarro noun "rat", the most likely reading of Tolkien's manuscript. Christopher Tolkien originally read the word as "nyano" (so in the published Etymologies, entry NYAD), but the "Noldorin"/Sindarin cognates nadhr, nadhor (VT46:7) indicate that the primitive form is meant to be *nyadrō, which form could hardly yield "nyano" in Quenya.