Middle Primitive Elvish
ari
noun. day
Derivations
- ᴹ√AR “day” ✧ Ety/AR¹
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Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√AR¹ > ari- [ari] ✧ Ety/AR¹ Variations
- ari- ✧ Ety/AR¹
ar
root. day
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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”).