curunír

noun. wizard

curunír

noun. wizard, wizard, [N.] man of craft

@@@ a compound of curu “skill, craft” (SA/curu) and the agental suffix -n(d)ir

Element in

• S. Curunír “Man of Skill”

Elements

Word	Gloss
curu	“skill (of the hand), craft; power, ability, skill (of the hand), craft; power, ability; [N.] cunning; [ᴱN.] magic”
dîr	“man, man, [N.] adult male; agental suffix”

ithron

noun. Wizard

Cognates

• Q. Istar “Wizard, (lit.) One Who Knows” ✧ UT/388; UTI/Istari

Element in

• S. Ithryn Luin “Blue Wizards” ✧ UT/390

curunír

wizard

(i gurunír, o churunír) (man of craft), no distinct pl. form except with article (i churunír), coll. pl. curuníriath.

ithron

wizard

(= Quenya istar, one of the order Gandalf belonged to), pl. ithryn, coll. pl. ithronnath (UT:388)

zigûr

noun. wizard

A noun translated “wizard” and given as an example of a noun with a long vowel in its final syllable that (archaically) uses the declension for a strong-noun (SD/437), the rare class of Strong-Ib nouns. By the time of Classical Adûnaic, it could be declined as an ordinary weak-noun instead. As the proper name Zigûr, it was the Adûnaic name for Sauron.

Element in

• Ad. Zigûr “Sauron”

Variations

• zigūr ✧ SD/437

zigûr

masculine name. Sauron

The Adûnaic name (or title) for Sauron (SD/250). It simply the word zigûr “wizard” used as a name.

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Sauron ✧ SD/250; SDI2/Sauron; SDI2/Zigûr

Element in

• Ad. kadô Zigûrun zabathân unakkha “and so [Sauron] he came humbled” ✧ SD/247
• Ad. Kadō zigūrun zabathān {hunekkū >>} unekkū “and so ‽ humbled he-came” ✧ SD/311

Elements

Word	Gloss
zigûr	“wizard”

Variations

• Zigūr ✧ SD/250; SD/345