#farnë (2) noun "dwelling", in orofarnë (as translated in Letters:224, but in other notes of Tolkiens the word was interpreted "any growing thing or plant", PE17:83)
Quenya
farnë
foliage
farnë
dwelling
farnë
noun. ash, rowan, ️ash, rowan; [ᴹQ.] foliage
A Quenya noun for the rowan-tree, appearing in an explanation of the name Orofarnë “Mountain Ash” in notes from the 1950s, though Tolkien marked it with a “?” as uncertain (PE17/83). Its older form was either fărnĭ or primitive ✶pharne; if the former, its stem form would be farni-.
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies from the 1930s, a similar word ᴹQ. feren/ferne appears as the Quenya word for “beech-tree” under the root ᴹ√PHER(EN) (Ety/PHER). Conversely, ᴹQ. farne appeared with the gloss “foliage” as a derivative of {ᴹ√PHARAN >>} ᴹ√PHAS (EtyAC/PHARAN, PHAS). As names of trees, it is possible that Tolkien intended to replace ferne < ᴹ√PHER(EN) with farnë < √PHAR(AN).
Neo-Quenya: For the purpose of Neo-Quenya writing, I think it is worth retaining both ᴹQ. feren “beech” and Q. farnë “ash, rowan” (along with its Sindarin cognate S. faran) as etymological variants referring to two distinct species of trees. For the sense “foliage”, it is probably better to use the later word olass(i)ë.
Cognates
- S. faran “rowan, rowan, *ash” ✧ PE17/083; PE17/083
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Orofarnë “Mountain Ash; Mountain-dwelling” ✧ PE17/083
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶pharan- > fărnĭ [pʰarani] > [pʰarane] > [pʰarne] > [ɸarne] > [farne] ✧ PE17/083 ✶pharne > farnë [pʰarne] > [ɸarne] > [farne] ✧ PE17/083
faznë
faznë
faznë, archaic form of farnë, q.v.
farya-
suffice
farya- vb. "suffice", pa.t. farnë (PHAR). An additional pa.t. form, farinyë, was published in VT46:9; this is a most unusual formation.
marda
dwelling
marda noun "dwelling" (PE17:107)
littë
noun. ash
A neologism for “ash” coined by Helge Fauskanger in his NQNT (NQNT), the Quenya equivalent of S. lith “ash”. In The Etymologies of the 1930s the Quenya cognate of N. lith was ᴹQ. litse (Ety/LIT), but in that document these words were glossed “sand”. Introducing a separate neologism ᴺQ. littë “ash” helps keep these two senses distinct.
Cognates
- S. lith “ash, ash; [N.] sand”
Derivations
- ᴹ√LIT “*(fine) grit”
farnë (1) noun "foliage", archaic faznë (VT46:9). Not to be confused with farnë as the pa.t. of the verb farya-, q.v.