tasar

willow-tree

tasar, tasarë (þ) noun "willow-tree" (TATHAR). In Tasarinan "Willow-valley", Nan-tasarion "Valley of willows" (SA:tathar)

tasarin

willow

tasarin noun "willow" (LT2:346; in Tolkien's later Quenya tasar, tasarë)

tasar(ë)

noun. willow

The Quenya word for “willow” appearing as both tasar (PE17/81) and tasare (SA/tathar), derived from the root √TATHAR. This form of the word dates back to The Etymologies of the 1930s where ᴹQ. tasar, tasare “willow” appeared under the root ᴹ√TATHAR (Ety/TATHAR).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a slightly different word ᴱQ. tasarin (tasarind-) “willow” under the early root ᴱ√TASA, though Tolkien marked it with a “?” (QL/89). This became tassarin “willow” with a double-s in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/139) before Tolkien adopted the form tasar(e) [þ] in the 1930s, as noted above.

Cognates

• S. tathar “willow (tree)” ✧ SA/tathar

Derivations

• ✶tathari “*willow”
  • √TATHAR “*willow” ✧ PE17/081; PE17/081

Element in

• Q. Nan-tasarion “Vale of Willow[s]” ✧ SA/tathar
• Q. Tasarinan “Willow-vale” ✧ SA/tathar

Variations

• tasar ✧ PE17/081
• tasarë ✧ SA/tathar

tathar

noun. willow-tree

tathar

noun. willow

n.Bot. #willow. >> taor, taur

tathar

noun. willow (tree)

The Sindarin word for “willow”, derived from the same root √TATHAR as its Quenya cognate tasarë (SA/tathar; PE17/81). Its adjectival form tathren “of willow(s)” is an element in the name Nan-tathren “Land of Willows” (S/120).

Conceptual Development: The earliest form of this word was G. tathrin “willow” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/69), cognate to ᴱQ. tasarin derived from the early root ᴱ√TASA (QL/53). This was an element in the early names G. Nan Tathrin and G. Dor-tathrin “Land of Willows”, but as a noun rather than an adjective. ᴱN. tathrin “willow” reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/153), but in The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien split it into two words: noun N. tathor “willow” and adjective N. tathren “of willow” under the root ᴹ√TATHAR (Ety/TATHAR).

In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien revisited the noun, first having [deleted] S. taur or taor derived from √TASĀR, which he revised to S. tathar derived from √TAÞAR, as noted above (PE17/81). The adjectival form S. tathren continued to appear in Silmarillion drafts of the 1950s and 60s as well (WJ/80).

Changes

• taur/taor → tathar ✧ PE17/081

Cognates

• Q. tasar(ë) “willow” ✧ SA/tathar

Derivations

• √TATHAR “*willow” ✧ PE17/081
• ✶tathari “*willow” ✧ PE17/081
  • √TATHAR “*willow” ✧ PE17/081; PE17/081

Element in

• S. tathren “of willow(s)”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√TASĀR > tachaur > taur/taor	[tasāre] > [tasǭre] > [tahǭre] > [tahaure] > [tahaur] > [taur]	✧ PE17/081
✶taþā̆rĭ- > tathar	[tatʰari] > [tatʰare] > [taθare] > [taθar]	✧ PE17/081

Variations

• taur/taor ✧ PE17/081 (taur/taor)

tathren

adjective. of willow, having willows

tathar

willow

tathar, also tathor (i dathar/-or; o thathar/-or), pl. tethair (i thethair) or (if tathor has an analogical plural) tethyr (i thethyr). Adj.

tathar

willow

also tathor (i dathar/-or; o thathar/-or), pl. tethair (i thethair) or (if tathor has an analogical plural) tethyr (i thethyr). Adj.

tathren

of willow, having willows

(lenited dathren, pl. tethrin)

tathar

root. *willow

Changes

• TASĀR → TAÞAR ✧ PE17/081

Derivatives

• ✶tathari “*willow” ✧ PE17/081; PE17/081
  • Q. tasar(ë) “willow”
  • S. tathar “willow (tree)” ✧ PE17/081
• S. tathar “willow (tree)” ✧ PE17/081

Variations

• TASĀR ✧ PE17/081 (TASĀR); PE17/187
• TAÞAR ✧ PE17/081; PE17/187

tathari

noun. *willow

Changes

• tăsăre → taþā̆rĭ- ✧ PE17/081

Derivations

• √TATHAR “*willow” ✧ PE17/081; PE17/081

Derivatives

• Q. tasar(ë) “willow”
• S. tathar “willow (tree)” ✧ PE17/081

Element in

• Q. Tasarinan “Willow-vale” ✧ PE17/081; PE17/081

Variations

• tăsăre ✧ PE17/081 (tăsăre)
• taþā̆rĭ- ✧ PE17/081

tathor

noun. willow-tree

Cognates

• ᴹQ. tasar(e) “willow-tree” ✧ Ety/TATHAR

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tatharē “willow-tree” ✧ Ety/TATHAR
  • ᴹ√TATHAR “*willow” ✧ Ety/TATHAR

Element in

• N. tathren “of willow” ✧ Ety/TATHAR

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tatharē > tathor	[tatʰarē] > [tatʰrē] > [tatʰre] > [taθre] > [taθr] > [taθor]	✧ Ety/TATHAR

tathor

noun. willow-tree

tathren

adjective. of willow, having willows