Title for the great female Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tári “queen” (Ety/BAL).
Qenya
vala
noun. Power, God
valatar
proper name. Vala-king
valatári
proper name. Vala-queen
valandur
masculine name. *Servant of the Vala
valarya
noun. *Friday, Vala-day
valasse
noun. divinity
vai(y)a
noun. envelope
A noun for “envelope” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with forms vaia or vaiya, and derived from ᴹ✶wāyā under the root ᴹ√WAY of similar meaning (Ety/WAY). It was used “especially of the Outer Sea or Air enfolding the world within the Ilurambar or world-walls”. It was also the name of a tengwar consisting of a circle with line leading from its bottom out horizontally to the right (EtyAC/WAY), but this tengwar did not appear in The Lord of the Rings.
Title of the nine great male Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tar- “king” (Ety/BAL, TĀ). Its (ᴹQ) genitive and plural forms Valatáren and Valatári indictate that its stem form is Valatár-. In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien consider this as a name for Aragorn’s father (TI/363).