mára

adjective. good

mára

adjective. good, proper, good, proper; [ᴹQ.] useful, fit, good (of things), [ᴱQ.] excellent; mighty, power, doughty

Cognates

• S. maer “good, excellent, fair, good, excellent, fair; [N.] useful, fit, good (of things)” ✧ PE17/172

Derivations

• ✶magrā “good, useful, proper, fit” ✧ PE17/016
  • √MAG “good (physically); to thrive, be in a good state, good (physically); to thrive, be in a good state; [ᴹ√] use, handle” ✧ VT47/06
• √MAG “good (physically); to thrive, be in a good state, good (physically); to thrive, be in a good state; [ᴹ√] use, handle” ✧ PE17/162; PE17/172
• ✶manrā “good” ✧ PE17/162
  • √MAN “good (morally), blessed, holy, unmarred, free from evil, good (morally), blessed, holy, unmarred, free from evil; [ᴹ√] holy spirit” ✧ PE17/162

Element in

• ᴺQ. alamára “no-good”
• Q. alasaila ná lá carë tai mo nave mára “it is unwise not to do what one judges good” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/33
• Q. carë mára quí tyarë naxa “doing good may cause evil” ✧ PE22/154
• Q. lá carita i hamil mára alasaila ná “not to do (in this case) what you judge good (would be) unwise” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/33
• Q. la navin caritalyas mára “I do not advise you to do so, (lit.) I don’t judge your doing (it) good” ✧ PE22/154; VT42/33
• Q. mára ná “it is good” ✧ PE17/093
• Q. mára tyen “good to you = like” ✧ PE22/166
• Q. márië “well, happily; goodness, good estate, being well, happiness” ✧ PE17/058; PE17/058; PE17/074; PE17/162; PE17/162
• Q. máralë “goodness” ✧ PE17/058
• Q. namárië “farewell, (lit.) be well, let it be well (to you)” ✧ PE17/059
• Q. nás mára nin “I like it” ✧ VT49/30
• Q. roccor i Erulingaron márë nár (ma naitë)? “the horses of the Rohirrim are good (are they not, lit. is it true)” ✧ PE22/166
• Q. ta mára “so good” ✧ VT49/12
• Q. úmara “bad, ill-used, evil, sinister” ✧ VT49/15

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶magra > māra	[magra] > [maɣra] > [māra]	✧ PE17/016
√MAGA > mára	[magra] > [maɣra] > [māra]	✧ PE17/162
✶manrā > māra	[manrā] > [mārā] > [māra]	✧ PE17/162
√MAG > mára	[magra] > [maɣra] > [māra]	✧ PE17/172

Variations

• māra ✧ PE17/016; PE17/074; PE17/162
• marna ✧ PE17/162 (marna)
• mara ✧ VT49/30

Amarië

good

Amarië fem. name; perhaps derived from mára "good" with prefixing of the stem-vowel and the feminine ending -ië (Silm)

ala-

good

ala- (3), also al-, a prefix expressing "good" or "well" (PE17:146), as in alaquenta (q.v.) Whether Tolkien imagined this ending to coexist with the negative prefix of the same form (#2 above) is unclear and perhaps dubious.

márë

noun. (moral) good, goodness

@@@ from Discord challenges Feb 2022, from primitive ✱man-rē

Derivations

• √MAN “good (morally), blessed, holy, unmarred, free from evil, good (morally), blessed, holy, unmarred, free from evil; [ᴹ√] holy spirit”