mirya

adjective. beautiful, lovely (of works of art only)

Cognates

• ᴺS. mair “precious”

Derivations

• √MIR “precious; esteem, value” ✧ PE17/165; PE17/165

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√MĬR > mĭrya	[mirja]	✧ PE17/165
√MIR > mīra	[mīra]	✧ PE17/165
√MIR > anamirya	[anamirja]	✧ PE17/165

Variations

• mĭrya ✧ PE17/165; PE17/165
• mīra ✧ PE17/165

mírya

beautiful

mírya adj. "beautiful" (of work of art only) (PE17:165)

mirwa

precious, valuable

mirwa adj. "precious, valuable" (PE17:37)

mairëa

beautiful

mairëa adj. "beautiful" (of things made by art) (PE17:163). An alternative (and peculiar) form "mairia" is also implied in the source.

calwa

beautiful

calwa ("k") adj. "beautiful" (LT1:254)

vanima

beautiful, fair

vanima adj. "beautiful, fair" (BAN, VT39:14) (glossed "proper, right, fair" in early "Qenya", LT1:272, though a later source says the word is used "only of living things, especially Elves and Men", PE17:150); nominal pl. vanimar "beautiful ones", partitive pl. genitive vanimálion, translated "of beautiful children", but literally meaning *"of [some] beautiful ones") (LotR3:VI ch. 6, translated in Letters:308). Arwen vanimalda "Beautiful Arwen", literally "Arwen your beauty" (see -lda for reference; changed to Arwen vanimelda in the second edition of LotR; see vanimelda).

vanima

adjective. beautiful