Anor

noun. sun

Anor

noun. Sun

_n. Astron._Sun. Q. anār/anăr. >> Ithil

anor

noun. Sun

The most common Sindarin name for the Sun derived from primitive ✶Anār, an augmented form of the root √NAR “fire” (PE17/38; Ety/ANÁR; SD/302-303, 306). The o is the result of ancient ā becoming au and then this au becoming o in polysyllables.

Conceptual Development: The term Anor was first mentioned in conjunction with early tales of Númenor (LR/41). It briefly appeared as N. {ánar >>} Anar “sun” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the entry for ᴹ√NAR (Ety/NAR¹; EtyAC/NAR¹), but as Anor under ᴹ√ANÁR (Ety/ANÁR). In The Notion Club Papers of the 1940s it was Anor, archaic †Anaur (SD/302-303, 306) and it retained this form thereafter.

Cognates

• Q. Anar “Sun” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár
• ᴹQ. Anar “Sun” ✧ SDI2/Anar

Derivations

• √NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ PE17/038
• ✶Anār “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
  • √NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame”

Element in

• ᴺS. anóren “sunny”
• S. Anórien “Sunlending, *(lit.) Sun-lands” ✧ SA/nár
• ᴺS. coranor “solar year, (lit.) sun-round”
• S. elanor “pimpernel, small golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star” ✧ PE17/055
• S. Minas Anor “Tower of the (Setting) Sun” ✧ SA/nár
• S. Oranor “*(lit.) Sun-day, Sunday”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√(A)NAR > anor	[anār] > [anǭr] > [anaur] > [anor]	✧ PE17/038

Variations

• anor ✧ PE17/030; PE17/038; PE17/055

Anor

sun

1) Anor (pl. Anoer if there is a pl.) Archaic Anaur (SD:306). 2) naur (mainly in compounds as nar-, -nor) (flame, fire), pl. noer, coll. pl. norath.

anor

sun

(pl. Anoer if there is a pl.) Archaic Anaur (SD:306).

naur

sun

(mainly in compounds as nar-, -nor) (flame, fire), pl. noer, coll. pl. norath.