fana

veils

fana noun term denoting the "veils" or "raiment" in which the Valar presented themselves to physical eyes, the bodies in which they were self-incarnated, usually in the shape of the bodies of Elves (and Men) (RGEO:74, PE17:173-180). According to PE17:26, fana may be said to mean "shape" with "added notion" of light and whiteness, "it is thus often used where we might use a vision of something beautiful or sublime", yet with no connotation of "uncertainty or unreality".

fana

noun. raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit

Cognates

• S. fân “(white) cloud; veil, curtain; form or vision of a spiritual being; spirit [embodied]” ✧ PE17/026; PE17/174; RGEO/66

Derivations

• √PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ PE17/026; PE17/179; RGEO/66
  • √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237
• ✶phanā “veil, cloud” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
  • √PHAY “spirit, spirit; [ᴹ√] radiate, send out rays of light” ✧ NM/237
  • √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237
  • √PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
  • √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237

Element in

• Q. Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe coar ar larmar “Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in veils, like to Elvish bodies and raiment” ✧ PE17/174; PE17/175

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√FAN > fana	[pʰana] > [ɸana] > [fana]	✧ PE17/026
✶phanā > fana	[pʰanā] > [ɸanā] > [ɸana] > [fana]	✧ PE17/173
✶phanā > fana	[pʰanā] > [ɸanā] > [ɸana] > [fana]	✧ PE17/174
√PHAN > fanar	[pʰanar] > [ɸanar] > [fanar]	✧ PE17/179
√Fana- > fana	[pʰana] > [ɸana] > [fana]	✧ RGEO/66

fána

cloud

fána (2) noun "cloud" _(SPAN, VT46:15). _Cf. fana.

larma

raiment

#larma (1) noun "raiment", attested in pl. form larmar (PE17:175)

larma

noun. raiment

A word from the late 1960s for “raiment” appearing only its plural form in the phrase Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe coar al larmar “Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in veils, like to Elvish bodies and raiment” (PE17/175). It’s derivation is unclear, but it might be tied to ᴹ√LAD “lie flat” from the 1940s (PE22/126).

Element in

• ᴺQ. páselarma “linen-raiment”
• Q. Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe coar ar larmar “Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in veils, like to Elvish bodies and raiment” ✧ PE17/175

ungo

cloud, dark shadow

ungo noun "cloud, dark shadow" (UÑG)

lumbo

cloud

lumbo noun "cloud" (pl. lumbor in Markirya), also glossed "gloom; dark, shade" (PE17:72, 168). In early "Qenya", lumbo was glossed "dark lowering cloud" (LT1:259)