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Early Primitive Elvish

mara

root. *sand, soil

A root appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as root {ᴱ√MAŘA² >>} ᴱ√MARA that Tolkien indicated was a dialectical variation or byform of ᴱ√MṚŘṚ [MṚÐṚ] “grind”, with a single derivative: ᴱQ. marilla “pearl” (QL/59). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, G. brithla “pearl” was most likely a derivative of ᴱ√MṚÐṚ (GL/24). However, in the m-section of GL Tolkien said “mar and môr probably conceal two roots and a confusion [with] mbara”, with various apparent derivatives of mar- such as G. mar “Earth, ground, soil”, G. marol “sand” and G. Môr “the Earth” (GL/56). Tolkien also had G. mara- “dwell”, but it appeared before a variant (m)bara and so likely was derived from ᴱ√MBARA “dwell, live” as mentioned in the Qenya Lexicon (QL/60). As for ᴱ√MARA² itself, it may have meant “✱sand, soil”.

Changes

  • MAŘA²MARA ✧ QL/059

Derivatives

  • Eq. marilla “pearl” ✧ QL/059
  • G. mar “Earth, ground, soil” ✧ GL/56
  • G. marol “sand” ✧ GL/56
  • G. Môr “The Earth” ✧ GL/56

Variations

  • mar ✧ GL/56
  • mar- ✧ GL/58
  • MARA ✧ QL/059 (MARA)
  • MAŘA² ✧ QL/059 (MAŘA²)
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/56; GL/58; QL/059] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mbara

root. dwell, live

Derivatives

  • Eq. mara- “to dwell, live” ✧ QL/063
  • Eq. mar “house, home, dwelling (of men); -land, the Earth” ✧ QL/060
  • En. barth “world, earth”
  • G. mara- “to dwell” ✧ GL/56
  • G. bar “home, dwelling” ✧ LT1A/Eldamar
  • G. bara “home, cottage”
  • G. bar(n)a- “to dwell in (a land), till (land)”
  • G. barn “tilled, inhabited”
  • G. brann “dwelling, hall”
  • G. barthi “at home, home”

Element in

  • Eq. Ilvaran “Hall of the Moon King”

Variations

  • mbara ✧ GL/56
  • mbar ✧ LT1A/Eldamar
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/56; LT1A/Eldamar; QL/060; QL/063] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gu̯ara-

verb. to dwell

Derivations

Derivatives

  • G. brann “dwelling, hall” ✧ GL/38
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/38] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ẇaða

root. dwell

Changes

  • W̯AŘAẆAÐA ✧ QL/102

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶gu̯ara- “to dwell”
    • G. brann “dwelling, hall” ✧ GL/38
  • Eq. -uran(do) “town” ✧ QL/102
  • Eq. wasta- “to dwell” ✧ QL/102
  • Eq. wasto “village” ✧ QL/102
  • G. grann “strong place, fort; walled town, city” ✧ QL/102
  • G. gwadh- “to dwell” ✧ GL/46; QL/102

Variations

  • gu̯ađ ✧ GL/46 (gu̯ađ)
  • W̯AŘA ✧ QL/102 (W̯AŘA)
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