curuvar _("k")_noun "wizard" (LT1:269 but Gandalf, Saruman etc. were istari)
Quenya
Istar
wizard
curuvar
wizard
sairon
wizard
sairon noun "wizard" (SAY); according to LT2:337 and GL:29, Sairon is also the Quenya (or Qenya) name of Dairon (Daeron).
istar
proper name. Wizard, (lit.) One Who Knows
A name for the five Wizards who travelled from the West to aid the free peoples against Sauron (LotR/1084, UT/388). It usually appeared in its plural form Istari, which meant “those who know” (Let/202, PM/360). Tolkien generally translated the name as “Wizard”, because the Old English sense of word was similar to the true meaning of this Quenya word (Let/207). The name Istar was most likely a combination of the verb ista- “to know” and the old agental suffix -r(o).
The title Istar was not used for ordinary mortal “wizards” or “magicians” (UT/388). For this purpose, perhaps the word [ᴹQ.] sairon was used instead.
Cognates
- S. ithron “Wizard” ✧ UT/388; UTI/Istari
Element in
- Q. Heren Istarion “Order of Wizards” ✧ UT/388
Elements
Word Gloss ista- “to know” -r(o) “agental suffix” Variations
- istar ✧ UT/388
istyar
scholar, learned man
istyar noun "scholar, learned man" (IS). According to VT45:18, Tolkien at one point also meant istyar to be the name of Tengwa #13 with overposed dots to indicate a palatal sound; the letter would thus have the value sty. However, according to the classical Tengwar spelling of Quenya as outlined in LotR Appendix E, such a letter would rather have the value *nty (since #13 is there assigned the value nt in Quenya).
ingólemo
one with very great knowledge, a 'wizard'
ingólemo noun "one with very great knowledge, a 'wizard' ", applied only to great sages of the Eldar in Valinor, like Rúmil (PM:360)
ingolmo
noun. loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge, loremaster, wizard, one with very great knowledge, *scientist
@@@ gloss “scientist” suggested by Robert Reynolds
Element in
- Q. Lambengolmor “Loremasters of Tongues”
- ᴺQ. sanyengolmo “lawyer”
Elements
Word Gloss ingolë “lore, science, philosophy, lore, science, philosophy; [ᴹQ.] deep lore, magic” -mo “agental suffix” Variations
- ingólemo ✧ PM/360 (ingólemo)
ingolmo
loremaster
ingolmo noun "loremaster" (WJ:383)
Istar noun "Wizard", used of Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast etc. Pl. Istari is attested. Gen. pl. in the phrase Heren Istarion "Order of Wizards" (UT:388). "The istari are translated wizards because of the connexion of wizard with wise and so with witting and knowing" (Letters:207); by this translation Tolkien tries to reproduce the relationship between Quenya istar and ista- #1, 2.