Quenya 

már

home, house, dwelling

már (mar-) (2) noun "home, house, dwelling" (also "house" in the sense of family as in Mardil, q.v.). See mar above for references. In Mar-nu-Falmar, Mardil, and as final element in Eldamar, Fanyamar, Valimar, Vinyamar..

mélamar

home

mélamar noun "home", Exilic Quenya word of emotional sense: place of ones birth or the familiar places from which one has been separated (PE17:109). Mélamarimma noun "Our Home", an expression used by Exilic Noldor for Aman.

Sindarin 

bardh

home

{ð}_ n. _home, the (proper) place for one (or a community) to dwell in.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:164] < *_mbar_ or _mbardă_ < MBAR settle. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

bardh

noun. home

A word for “home” appearing in draft notes from the 1960s discussing the root √MBAR, where it was contrasted with bâr “house, dwelling”:

> In Sindarin bar [< ✱mbăr-] (pl. bair) was used for a single house or dwelling, especially of the larger and more permanent sort; barð [< ✱mbardā̆] was much as English “home”, the (proper) place for one (or a community) to dwell in (PE17/164).

It was also contrasted with milbar “dear home” which was used for the “emotional senses ‘home’ as the place of one’s birth, or desire, or one’s home returned to after journey or exile” (PE17/164). In later versions of these notes on √MBAR, Tolkien mentioned bâr and milbar but not bardh (PE17/109).

Neo-Sindarin: Given its absense from the final version of the √MBAR notes, it is possible Tolkien abandoned bardh “home”. However, I prefer to retain it for purposes of Neo-Sindarin for the ordinary sense of “home”, and reserve milbar for one’s “emotional home” or “✱true home” from which one is currently separated, as opposed to the home that you are living now = bardh. I would use bâr primarily in the sense “house, dwelling”.

Cognates

  • Q. mar(da) “dwelling, (great) house, residence, mansion, a thing or place dwelt in, home, dwelling, (great) house, residence, mansion, a thing or place dwelt in, home; [ᴱQ.] world” ✧ PE17/164

Derivations

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
mbardā̆ > barð[mbarda] > [barda] > [barða] > [barð]✧ PE17/164

Variations

  • barð ✧ PE17/164
Sindarin [PE17/164] Group: Eldamo. Published by

bâr

home

bâr (dwelling, house, family; land, earth) (i mâr, o mbâr, construct bar), pl. bair (i mbair). Also -bar, -mar at the end of compounds.

bâr

home

(dwelling, house, family; land, earth) (i mâr, o mbâr, construct bar), pl. bair (i mbair). Also -bar, -mar at the end of compounds.


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Qenya 

mar

noun. home, dwelling, house, habitation; earth

Cognates

  • N. bár “home; earth”
  • Ilk. bar “home”

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MBAR “dwell, inhabit” ✧ EtyAC/ÉNED; Ety/GAWA; Ety/MBAR; Ety/TAN; EtyAC/MBAR; EtyAC/SIL; PE19/036
    • ᴹ√BAR “raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)” ✧ Ety/BAR

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√MBAR > mar[mbar] > [mar]✧ EtyAC/ÉNED
ᴹ√MBAR > mar[mbar] > [mar]✧ Ety/GAWA
ᴹ√MBAR > mar[mbar] > [mar]✧ Ety/MBAR
ᴹ√MBAR > mar[mbar] > [mar]✧ Ety/MBAR
ᴹ√MBAR > mar[mbar] > [mar]✧ Ety/TAN
ᴹ√MBAR > mar[mbar] > [mar]✧ Ety/MBAR
ᴹ√MBAR > mar(d)-[mbarda] > [mbard] > [mard] > [mar]✧ EtyAC/MBAR
ᴹ√[?mbar] > mar(d-)[mbarda] > [mbard] > [mard] > [mar]✧ EtyAC/SIL

Variations

  • már ✧ PE19/036; PE22/108; PE22/108
Qenya [Ety/ÉNED; Ety/GAWA; Ety/MBAR; Ety/TAN; EtyAC/MBAR; EtyAC/SIL; LR/063; LR/072; PE19/036; PE21/19; PE21/27; PE21/69; PE22/108] Group: Eldamo. Published by

marta

adverb. home

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MBAR “dwell, inhabit”
    • ᴹ√BAR “raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)” ✧ Ety/BAR

Variations

  • marta ✧ PE21/25; PE21/27
Qenya [PE21/25; PE21/27] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Doriathrin

bar Reconstructed

noun. home

A noun meaning something like “home” attested only in compounds like Eglamar “Elvenhome”.

Cognates

  • N. bár “home; earth”
  • ᴹQ. mar “home, dwelling, house, habitation; earth”

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MBAR “dwell, inhabit”
    • ᴹ√BAR “raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)” ✧ Ety/BAR

Element in

Old Noldorin 

mbar

noun. home

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MBAR “dwell, inhabit” ✧ Ety/MBAR
    • ᴹ√BAR “raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)” ✧ Ety/BAR

Derivatives

  • N. bár “home; earth” ✧ EtyAC/MBAR

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√MBAR > mbar[mbar]✧ Ety/MBAR
Old Noldorin [EtyAC/MBAR; PE21/58] Group: Eldamo. Published by