Middle Primitive Elvish
ar
root. day
Derivatives
Element in
ari
noun. day
Derivations
- ᴹ√AR “day” ✧ Ety/AR¹
Derivatives
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√AR¹ > ari- [ari] ✧ Ety/AR¹ Variations
- ari- ✧ Ety/AR¹
day
root. shadow
Changes
DAƷ→ DAY ✧ EtyAC/DAYDAG→ DAƷ ✧ EtyAC/DAYDerivatives
Element in
Variations
- DAƷ ✧ EtyAC/DAY (
DAƷ)- DAG ✧ EtyAC/DAY (
DAG)
il
root. all
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹQ. ilqa “everything, all” ✧ Ety/IL
k’lā
noun. light
Derivations
- ᴹ√KAL “shine” ✧ Ety/KAL; PE18/038
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. kala “light” ✧ Ety/KAL
Element in
- ᴹQ. Kalion “Son of Light, Valinorian Elda” ✧ PE21/37 (
kalion)Variations
- k’lā́ ✧ Ety/KAL
- klā́ ✧ PE18/038
- kalĭ ✧ PE21/37 (
kalĭ)
anār
noun. Sun
Derivations
- ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” ✧ Ety/ANÁR
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹ✶Phayanāro “Radiant Sun”
Variations
- anār- ✧ Ety/ANÁR
gālæ
noun. light
Derivations
- ᴹ√KAL “shine” ✧ Ety/KAL
Derivatives
- Ilk.
gôl“light” ✧ Ety/KAL
kalat
noun. light
Variations
- kalat- ✧ PE21/56
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “day” with various derivatives like ᴹQ. are, N. aur “day” and ᴹQ. arin “morning” (Ety/AR¹). In Tolkien’s later writings, the Quenya word for “day” became aurë (RC/727; S/190), and in 1957 Quenya Notes he devised a new etymology for these day-words from the root √UR “heat” as in ✶auri “heat, period of sun” (PE17/148). That opens the question whether the various 1930s Quenya “morning” words from ᴹ√AR remain valid, but many Neo-Quenya writers (including me) retain them since there aren’t really any good alternatives. They might be salvageable as derivatives of the later root √AS “warmth” (so that “day” = “hot” and “morning” = “warm”).