aparuivë, also just ruivë, noun "wild fire, "fire as conflagration" (PE17:183)
Quenya
(apa)ruivë
noun. wild fire, fire as conflagration
Derivations
- √RUY “blaze (red)” ✧ PE17/183
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √RUYU > ruive [ruiwe] > [ruiβe] > [ruive] ✧ PE17/183 Variations
- ruive ✧ PE17/183
- aparuive ✧ PE17/183
aparuivë
wild fire,
ruivë
wild fire
ruivë, also aparuivë, noun "wild fire", fire as conflagration (PE17:183)
ruivë
noun. wild fire
A word appearing as ruive “wild fire — fire as conflagration” in etymological notes from around 1964 (DD), along with a longer variant aparuive (PE17/183). The short form ruive is derived from the root √RUYU “blaze (red)”, but it is not clear what the apa- prefix means in the longer form.
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s there was a noun ᴱQ. (uru)purnie “conflagration”, an elaboration of ᴱQ. pur (purn-) “a fire” with an (optional) prefix of ᴱQ. uru “fire” (QL/75), so perhaps “✱(lit.) fiery fireness”.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d use ruive for a basic “wild fire”, and augmented aparuivë for a massive conflagration.