Early Quenya
ore
noun. seed, grain
Derivations
- ᴱ√ORO “*sow” ✧ QL/070
Element in
- Eq. orivaine “pod, seed pod, pea; peapod (a boat)” ✧ QL/070
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√ORO² > [or]ı̯ǝ > ore [orjǝ] > [orj] > [ori] > [ore] ✧ QL/070
óre
noun. dawn, Sunrise, East
Derivations
- ᴱ√OÐO “*dawn” ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/070
Element in
- Eq. órea “of the dawn, Eastern” ✧ LT1A/Oromë; QL/070
- Eq. lindórea “singing at dawn (esp. of birds)” ✧ QL/054
- Eq. lintuilindórea “of autumn; when many swallows congregate and sing at dawn”
- Eq. óresse oilima “in the last morning” ✧ MC/214
- Eq. Oreros “Eastwind” ✧ QL/070
- Eq. Oresul “Eastwind” ✧ QL/070
- Eq. Orodáni “East Danes”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√OŘO > ōre [ōðē] > [ōðe] > [ōze] > [ōre] ✧ QL/070 Variations
- órë ✧ LT1A/Oromë
- ōre ✧ QL/054 (ōre); QL/070
oro-
verb. to rise
Derivations
- ᴱ√ORO “steepness, rising” ✧ LT1A/Kalormë; QL/070
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√ORO¹ > oro- [oro-] ✧ QL/070
mile
noun. seed
Derivations
- ᴱ√MILI “*seed” ✧ QL/061
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√MILI > mile [mili] > [mile] ✧ QL/061
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. ore (ori-) “seed, grain” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ORO (QL/70). Tolkien indicated its primitive form was ✱[or]ı̯ǝ. Tolkien also indicated that its root may be better analyzed as o- + ᴱ√RIẎI “scatter” (QL/70, 80).
Neo-Quenya: There are indications that the root ᴹ√RĪI̯ survived until at least the early 1930s, so I would salvage this early word but update it to ᴺQ. ori “grain” = o + RĪ. I would use the later word ᴹQ. erde for “seed”, however. I would assume that like English “grain”, ori be used both collectively for a mass of “grain” as well as an individual “grain”.