marin

noun. (ripe) fruit (of apple type)

A word for a “(ripe) fruit” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√MARA having to do with ripeness (QL/59). Tolkien clarified that it was used for fruits “esp. [from] trees of the apple type” (QL/59) and “with pulp firm [and] seeds like apple” (QL/61). In the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa the word was simply glossed “fruit” (PME/59).

Cognates

• G. maros “ripe fruit”

Derivations

• ᴱ√MARA “ripe, yellow” ✧ QL/059

Element in

• Eq. kulmarin “orange” ✧ QL/049
• Eq. marinne “fruit tree” ✧ QL/059

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴱ√MARA¹ > marin	[marin]	✧ QL/059