oar

oar

oar (1) = oa #1, q.v.

oar

child of the sea, merchild

oar (2) noun "child of the sea, merchild" (LT1:263; hardly valid in Tolkien's later Quenya)

öar

adverb. away from

Cognates

• T. avad “away from” ✧ WJ/366

Derivations

• √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out” ✧ WJ/364
• ✶awā-da ✧ WJ/366

Element in

• Q. Oärel “Elf who left Middle-earth for Aman” ✧ WJ/366

Elements

Word	Gloss
öa	“away (of movement)”
-r	“motion to or towards a point, motion to or towards a point, *archaic allative”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√AWA > öar	[awāda] > [awād] > [awāð] > [oað] > [oar]	✧ WJ/364
✶awā-da > öar	[awāda] > [awād] > [awāð] > [oað] > [oar]	✧ WJ/366

oa

öa, öar

oa (1), also oar ("öa, öar"), adverbs, "away", with the idea of movement away (WJ:366, gloss in VT39:6). Compare au #2.

oaris

mermaid

oaris (oarits-), also oarwen, noun "mermaid" (LT1:263; read perhaps ëar- for oar- in LotR-style Quenya)

au

away from

o (3) prep.? variant (along with au and va) of the stem awa "away from" (VT49:24). It is uncertain whether this o is a Quenya word; Patrick Wynne suggests it could be the first element of the preposition ollo "away from" (ibid.)

ollo

away from

ollo (2) prep. "away from" (VT49:24)

ollo

preposition. away from

palma

noun. flat tool, flat plank, oar

Elements

Word	Gloss
PAL	“wide, broad, extended, wide, broad, extended; [ᴹ√] wide (open); [ᴱ√] flatness”
-mā	“instrumental suffix”