tarya adj. "tough, stiff" (TÁRAG)
Quenya
tara
thither
tarya
tough, stiff
tára
wise
tára (2) ?"wise". (From tentative notes trying to explain Daur [unlenited *Taur] as Sindarin name of Frodo; the more normal word for "wise" seems to be saila/saira.)
tára
adjective. wise
Derivations
- ✶dāra “wise” ✧ PE17/102
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶dāra > tāra [dāra] > [tāra] ✧ PE17/102 Variations
- tāra ✧ PE17/102
tára
lofty
tára (1) adj. "lofty". (SA:tar, LT1:264, TĀ/TA3 (AYAK, TÁWAR), VT45:6), "tall, high" (WJ:417). Compare antara. Adverb táro in an early "Qenya" text (VT27:20, 26). The adj. tára is not to be confused with the continuative form of the verb #tar- "stand".
tára
adjective. lofty, tall, high
Changes
- tāra → tāra “tall” ✧ PE17/186
Cognates
- S. taer “lofty, lofty, *high” ✧ PE17/186; PE17/186
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √TAG/Tā- > tāra [tagra] > [taɣra] > [tāra] ✧ PE17/186 √TĂR > tāra [tāra] ✧ PE17/186 ✶tagra > tāra [tagra] > [taɣra] > [tāra] ✧ PE17/186 √TAR > tára [tāra] ✧ WJ/417 Variations
- tāra ✧ PE17/186; PE17/186; PE17/186
- tára ✧ SA/tar; WJ/417
tar
adverb. thither
PQ. thither
tar
thither
tar (1) adv. or technically pron. with old allative ending: "thither" (TA). This is ta #1 with the same allative ending -r (from primitive -da) as in mir "into". Compare tanna. According to VT49:11, tar may also appear in the logner form tara.
tá
high
tá 2) adj. "high" (LT1:264; there spelt tâ. This is hardly a valid word in Tolkien's later Quenya, but cf. tára "lofty".)
tar(a)
adverb. thither, thither; [ᴹQ.] beyond
Derivations
- ✶tad(a) “thither, thereto, to that” ✧ PE19/104
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tad > tar [tad] > [tað] > [tar] ✧ PE19/104 Variations
- tar ✧ PE19/104
- tăr ✧ VT49/11
- tăra ✧ VT49/11
- tamen ✧ VT49/33
tar-
affix. high, high; [ᴹQ.] king or queen (in compounds)
Cognates
- S. -dor “*king, lord”
Derivations
- √TĀ/TAƷ “high, high, [ᴹ√] lofty; noble”
Element in
- Q. Alatar
- Q. Annatar “Lord of Gifts” ✧ SA/tar
- Q. Arantar “*High King”
- Q. Tar Calimos “*Royal Bright City”
- Q. Hyarantar “?Southern Height”
- Q. Sorontar “King of Eagles”
- Q. Taniquetil “High White Peak”
- Q. tára “lofty, tall, high” ✧ SA/tar
- Q. Tarannon
- Q. Tarcil “High Man, Númenórean”
- Q. Tarciryan
- Q. Tareldar “High-elves”
- Q. tarhanwa “throne, (lit.) high seat” ✧ PE22/148
- Q. tári “queen, queen, [ᴱQ.] mistress, lady” ✧ SA/tar
- Q. Tarindor “*High minded one”
- Q. tarma “pillar” ✧ SA/tar
- Q. Tarmenel “High Heaven”
- Q. tarminas “great towering building (fort/city/castle), tower”
- ᴺQ. tarolwen “sceptre, (lit.) royal branch”
- Q. Tarondor “?King of Stones”
- Q. Tarostar “?King of the Lands”
- Q. Tarquesta “High Speech, High Language”
- Q. Tarumbar “King of the World”
- S. Tarmund “Noble Bull”
Variations
- tar- ✧ PE22/148; SA/tar
tar-
stand
#tar- (3) vb. "stand", attested in the past tense: tarnë (PE17:71)
arata
high, lofty, noble
arata adj. "high, lofty, noble" (PE17:49, 186). Also used as a a noun with nominal pl. form Aratar "the Supreme", the chief Valar, translation of the foreign word Máhani adopted and adapted from Valarin (WJ:402). Aratarya "her sublimity"; Varda Aratarya "Varda the lofty, Varda in her sublimity" (WJ:369). In one source, Aratar is translated as a singular: "High One" (PE17:186)
saira
wise
saira adj. "wise" (SAY, VT46:12; a later source has the alternative formation #saila as above)
tanna
thither
tanna (2) pron. in allative "thither" (VT14:5, PE16:96; evidently to be understood as the allative of ta #2: "to that [place]"). Compare tar and locative tassë.
tanna
adverb. thither
Element in
- Q. i·oromandi tanna lendë “*the wood-spirits came thither” ✧ PE16/096
- Q. lendë tanna Nieliccilis “*thither came little Niéle” ✧ PE16/096
Elements
Word Gloss ta “that, there, that, there, [ᴹQ.] it” Variations
- tanna ✧ PE16/096; PE16/096
tána
high, lofty, noble
tána (meaning unclear, probably adj. "high, lofty, noble") (TĀ/TA3). Compare tára.
termar-
stand
termar- vb. "stand" meaning last (ter-mar- "through-abide"); future tense termaruva in CO.
canya
adjective. wise
halda
adjective. high, tall
saila
wise
#saila adj. "wise" (isolated from alasaila [q.v.] "unwise" in a late source)
saila
adjective. wise
Cognates
- S. sael “wise”
Derivations
- ᴹ√SAY “know, understand”
Element in
- Q. alasaila “unwise” ✧ VT41/18
- ᴺQ. sailiendil “philosopher”
tamen
thither
tamen adv. "thither" (VT49:33). Compare simen.
tamen
adverb. thither
tande
thither
tande adv. "thither" (MC:215; this is "Qenya")
istima
adjective. wise, knowledgeable, v.well informed
cëa
noun. *hedge
Quenya cognate of S. cai, second element of S. Morgai “Black Fence”, with both Q. këa and S. cai derived from √KAYA (PE17/101). Elsewhere S. cai was glossed “hedge” (UT/282), so perhaps the Quenya word cëa had the same meaning.
Cognates
- S. cai “hedge” ✧ PE17/101
Derivations
- √KAY “lie, lie, [ᴹ√] lie down; [ᴱ√] rest, dwell” ✧ PE17/101
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √KAYA > këa [kaja] > [kea] ✧ PE17/101 Variations
- këa ✧ PE17/101
iswa
wise
iswa adj. "wise" (LT2:339); rather saila in Tolkiens later Quenya.
nóla
wise, learned
nóla ("ñ") (1) adj. "wise, learned" (ÑGOL) (note that this and the next nóla would be spelt differently in Tengwar writing, and originally they were also pronounced differently, since nóla "wise, learned" was ñóla in First Age Quenya).
isqua
wise
isqua ("q") adj. "wise" (LT2:339).
arata
high, lofty, noble
arata adj. "high, lofty, noble" (PE17:49, 186). Also used as a a noun with nominal pl. form Aratar "the Supreme", the chief Valar, translation of the foreign word Máhani adopted and adapted from Valarin (WJ:402). Aratarya "her sublimity"; Varda Aratarya "Varda the lofty, Varda in her sublimity" (WJ:369). In one source, Aratar is translated as a singular: "High One" (PE17:186)
tara adv. "thither"; see tar #1.