Qenya
úr
noun. fire, heat
Cognates
- N.
ûr“fire” ✧ Ety/URDerivations
- ᴹ√
UR“be hot” ✧ Ety/URElement in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√UR > úr [ūr] ✧ Ety/UR Variations
- ūr ✧ PE22/023; PE22/051
anar
noun. Sun
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Anárion
- ᴹQ. anaristya “[unglossed]”
- ᴹQ. anaróre “sunrise”
- ᴹQ. enyáre tar i tyel, íre Anarinya qeluva “in that day beyond the end, when my Sun faileth” ✧ LR/072
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶anār- > Anar [anār] > [anar] ✧ Ety/ANÁR ᴹ√NAR¹ > Anar [anār] > [anar] ✧ Ety/NAR¹ ᴹ✶Anār > Anar [anār] > [anar] ✧ SD/306 Variations
- anar ✧ PE22/019; PE22/023
The word ᴹQ. úr “fire” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√UR “be hot”, but this word was deleted when Tolkien revised the meaning of the root to “wide, large, great” (Ety/UR). However, the root √UR “heat” reappeared in later writings (PE22/160), and úr “fire” appeared in The Feanorian Alphabet of the 1930s as the name of tengwa #36 [.] (PE22/23). It reappeared again in the version of that document from the 1940s, but with the gloss “fire, heat” (PE22/51). In the 1st edition of The Lord of the Rings, the name of tengwa #36 was úr “heat” (RC/736), revised in the 2nd edition to Q. úrë “heat” (LotR/1123).
Conceptual Development: The earliest precursor of ᴹQ. úr “fire” was ᴱQ. uru “fire” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√URU (QL/98).
Neo-Quenya: Based on the development of the names for tengwa #36, it seems 1930s úr “fire” >> 1940s úr “fire, heat” >> 1950s úr “heat” >> 1960s úre “heat”. However, the introduction of Q. úrë “heat” might mean that úr could once again be used for “fire”, and this has long been a popular word in Neo-Quenya. I would retain úr for that purpose, as it also allows us to salvage several fire-related related adjectives. It is possible, though, that the root √UR was restricted to “heat” and can no longer be used for “fire”.