Quenya 

day

noun "day" (of the sun), a full 24-hour cycle (Appendix D) composed of aurë (day, daylight) and lómë "night" (VT49:45). Short - in compounds like Ringarë (q.v.). Allative rénna (VT49:45).

noun. day (period from sunset to sunset)

Derivations

  • “single item take out of a (long) series” ✧ PE22/158
    • ER “one, single, alone, one, single, alone; [ᴹ√] be alone, deprived; [ᴱ√] remain alone” ✧ PE22/158

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
> [rē]✧ PE22/158

Variations

  • ✧ PE17/119; VT49/34
Quenya [LotR/1107; LotR/1112; PE17/119; PE22/158; RC/727; VT49/34; VT49/45] Group: Eldamo. Published by

noun. day in calendar

Quenya [PE 22:158] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

árë

day

árë noun "day" (PM:127) or "sunlight" (SA:arien). Stem ári- _(PE17:126, where the word is further defined as "warmth, especially of the sun, sunlight"). Also name of tengwa #31; cf. also ar # 2. Originally pronounced ázë; when /z/ merged with /r/, the letter became superfluous and was given the new value ss, hence it was re-named essë (Appendix E)_. Also árë nuquerna *"árë reversed", name of tengwa #32, similar to normal árë but turned upside down (Appendix E). See also ilyázëa, ilyárëa under ilya. In the Etymologies, this word has a short initial vowel: arë pl. ari (AR1)

resta

noun. sown field

sown field, tilled ground, acre

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resta

sown field, acre

resta noun "sown field, acre" (VT46:11 cf. RED-). The word parma-restalyanna, probably meaning *"(up)on your book-fair", seems to use #resta in the sense of "fair" (as held in a field?) Carl F. Hostetter however suggests that #resta "fair" may be related to "day" (VT49:39-40); if so this word is wholly distinct from resta "sown field".

Ae

day

Ae (Quenya?) noun "day" (LEP/LEPEN/LEPEK - ae was written over ar [# 2] in the names of the Valinorean week, but ar was not struck out.)

ar

day

ar (2) noun "day" (PE17:148), apparently short for árë, occurring in the names of the Valinorean week listed below. Tolkien indicated that ar in these names could also be arë when the following element begins in a consonant (VT45:27). Usually the word for "day" in LotR-style Quenya is rather aurë (or ), q.v.

pontë

back, rear

pontë (ponti-) noun "back, rear" (QL:75)

sana

day (24 hours)

sana (2) noun "day (24 hours)" (LT1:250; the later word is to be preferred to this early "Qenya" form)

ala

day

[ala (7) noun "day", also alan "daytime". The forms allen, alanen listed after these words could be inflected forms of them, genitive "of daytime", constracted (allen = al'nen) and uncontracted. However, Tolkien struck out all of this (VT45:13).]

catta

noun. back

A neologism for “back” coined by Paul Strack in 2022 specifically for Eldamo, based on Q. ca(ta) “behind, at back of place”. This word can refer to the back of body as well as the back of other things.

Elements

WordGloss
ca(ta)“behind, at back of place, behind, at back of place; [ᴹQ.] after”
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opto

noun. back

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