nár noun "flame", also nárë (NAR1).Translated "fire" in some names, see Aicanár(o), Fëanáro (where nár apparently has the masculine ending -o added to it). According to PE17:183, nár- is "fire as an element" (a concrete fire or blaze is rather called a ruinë).
Quenya
nár
noun. fire (as an element), fire (as an element); [ᴹQ.] flame
Cognates
- S. naur “fire, fire, [N.] flame” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár
Derivations
- √NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ PE17/038
Element in
- Q. Aicanáro “Fell Fire; Sharp Flame” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. Artanáro “*Noble Fire”
- Q. Fëanáro “Spirit of Fire” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. Nárië “June, *Fire-ness”
- Q. Narmacil “*Fire-sword”
- Q. Narquelië “October, Sun-fading” ✧ LotR/1110
- ᴹQ. Narqelion “Fire-fading, Autumn”
- ᴺQ. narrundo “torch”
- Q. Narsil “Red and White Flame” ✧ PE17/029; SA/nár
- ᴺQ. nartanwë “firework”
- Q. Narvinyë “January, *New-fire”
- Q. Narya “(Ring) of Fire” ✧ SA/nár
- Q. Telemnar “*Silver Fire”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √(A)NAR > nár [nār] ✧ PE17/038 Variations
- Nar ✧ LotR/1110 (Nar)
- nār- ✧ PE17/183
nár
flame
nárë
flame
nárë, also short nár, noun "flame" (NAR1, Narqelion). Translated "fire" in some names, see Aicanáro, Fëanáro (where nár apparently has the masculine ending -o, though in the latter name it may also be the genitive ending since Fëa-náro** is translated "Spirit of Fire"). At one point, Tolkien mentioned "nār-" as the word for "fire (as an element)" (PE17:183). Cf. ruinë** as the word for "a fire" (a concrete instance of fire) in the same source.
velca
flame
velca ("k") noun "flame" (LT1:260; nár, nárë would be the normal word in Tolkien's later Quenya)
The basic Quenya word for “fire” derived from the root √NAR of the same meaning (PE17/29, 38), more specifically “fire as an element” or as a force or abstract concept (PE17/183), versus ruinë “a fire, a blaze” which is an individual fire or blaze in the physical world. In The Etymologies of the 1930s it appeared as ᴹQ. nár or náre “flame” derived from the root ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” (Ety/NAR¹).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had as a derivative of the root ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” the word ᴱQ. Sā “Fire, especially in temples, etc. A mystic name identified with Holy Ghost” (QL/81), and this “mystic name” was also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/81). Thus it seems ᴱQ. sá was “mystic fire”, as opposed to ᴱQ. uru which was ordinary “fire” (QL/98).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word as [ᴹQ.] náre as an independent word, and use nár or nar in compounds only. This helps keep it distinct from nár the plural of ná- “to be”.