An early Qenya word for the Sun appearing in a word list from the 1920s (PE15/77). Its etymology is obscure.
Early Quenya
sári
proper name. Sun
ahúra
noun. Sun
auro
noun. sun
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sári
proper name. Sun
ahúra
noun. Sun
An early Qenya word for the Sun appearing in a word list from the 1920s (PE15/77). Its etymology is obscure.
auro
noun. sun
A name for the Sun in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/186), probably a derivative of the root ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Sári).