adar (pl. edair);
Sindarin
adar
noun. father
adar
noun. father
Cognates
- Q. atar “father” ✧ PM/324
Derivations
Element in
- S. ae Adar nín i vi Menel “our Father who [art] in Heaven” ✧ VT44/22
- S. atheg “[little] father; thumb” ✧ VT48/17 (
aderig)- S. Edenedair “Fathers of Men”
- S. Eladar “Starfather”
- S. Iarwain Ben-adar “Oldest and Fatherless”
Variations
- Adar ✧ VT44/22
atheg
noun. "litte father"
atheg
noun. thumb (Elvish play-name used by and taught to children)
adar
father
adar
father
(pl. edair);
ada
father
(pl. edai)
adanadar
father of men
normally pl. Edenedair "Fathers of Men", the early Edain.
The Sindarin word for “father”, derived from the root √AT(AR) (PM/324; VT44/21-22; VT48/19).
Conceptual Development: N. adar “father” also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as a derivative of the root ᴹ√ATA of the same meaning (Ety/ATA). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, however, G. †ador “father” was marked as archaic, and it seems {athon >>} G. nathon was the ordinary word for ”father” (GL/17, 59).