Fëanáro masc. name "Spirit of Fire", in Sindarized form Fëanor(SA:nár, PHAY, MR:206). The word apparently includes the masculine ending -o. Compare fëa, nár.
Quenya
fëa
spirit
fëa
noun. (indwelling or incarnate) spirit, soul
Cognates
- S. fae “incarnate spirit, incarnate spirit, *soul” ✧ MR/165
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶phăya > fëa [pʰaja] > [ɸaja] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ MR/349 ✶phăya > fëa [pʰaja] > [ɸaja] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ MR/470 ✶phắyā > fëa [pʰajā] > [ɸajā] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ NM/237 ✶fáyā > fëa [pʰajā] > [ɸajā] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ PE17/124 ✶phayā > făyā > fea [pʰajā] > [ɸajā] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ PE19/104 √PHAYA > fëa [pʰaja] > [ɸaja] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ PM/352 ✶phayā > fea [pʰajā] > [ɸajā] > [ɸea] > [fea] ✧ VT41/14 Variations
- fea ✧ PE19/104; VT41/14
Fëanáro
spirit of fire
coa
köa
coa ("köa")noun "house" (VT47:35, with etymology); coarya "his house" (WJ:369), allative coaryanna ("k") "to/at his house" (VT49:23, 35), quenderinwë coar ("koar") "Elvish bodies" (PE17:175). Notice how coa "house" is here used metaphorically = "body", as also in the compound coacalina "light of the house"(a metaphor for the soul [fëa] dwelling inside the body [hroa]) (MR:250)
hroa
hröa
hroa (sometimes spelt "hröa")noun "body" (changed by Tolkien from hrondo, in turn changed from hrón). The word hroa comes from earlier ¤srawa(VT47:35). Pl. hroar is attested (MR:304, VT39:30). In MR:330, Tolkien notes that hroa is "roughly but not exactly equivalent to 'body' " (as opposed to "soul"). The Incarnates live by necessary union of hroa (body) and fëa (soul) (WJ:405). Hroafelmë "body-impulse" (impulses provided by the body, e.g. physical fear, hunger, thirst, sexual desire) (VT41:19 cf. 13)
súlë
spirit, breath
súlë (þ) noun "spirit, breath", also name of tengwa #9; originally thúlë (þúlë), before the shift th > s that occurred shortly before the rebellion of the Noldor (Appendix E, THŪ). Its gloss, "blowing forth", was metaphorically used as "the emission of power (of will or desire) from a spirit" (PE17:124). If the element súlë appears in Súlimë and Súlimo (q.v.), the stem-form may seem to be súli-.
þúlë
noun. spirit
vilissë
spirit
vilissë noun "spirit" (GL:23)
hó
spirit, shadow
hó noun "spirit, shadow" (PE17:86)
fëa noun "spirit" (pl. fëar attested, MR:363). The Incarnates are said to live by necessary union of hroa (body) and fëa (WJ:405). In Airëfëa noun "the Holy Spirit", Fëanáro masc. name "Spirit of Fire" (Quenya-Sindarin hybrid form: Fëanor), Fëanturi noun "Masters of Spirits", name of the two Valar Mandos and Lórien (SA:tur), fëafelmë noun "spirit-impulse" (impulses originating with the spirit, e.g. love, pity, anger, hate) (VT41:19 cf. 13, VT43:37). In one source it is said to mean specifically a "spirit indwelling a body", i.e. "soul" (PE17:124), which contradicts such uses as Airefëa or Fëanturi. Cf. fairë.