Qenya
nyarro
noun. rat
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
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).