Early Quenya
pur
noun. a fire, an artificial fire
Derivations
- ᴱ√PUÐU “consume by fire” ✧ QL/075
Element in
- Eq. (uru)purnie “conflagration” ✧ QL/075
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√PUŘU > pur [puðn] > [puzn] > [purn] > [pur] ✧ QL/075
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s for “a fire”, more specifically “an artificial fire”, with stem form purn- and derived from the early root ᴱ√PUŘU [PUÐU] “consume by fire” (QL/75).