The feminine personification of ûri “the sun” (SD/426), perhaps the Adûnaic name for Q. Arien.
Adûnaic
ûri
noun. sun
ûrî
feminine name. (Lady of the) Sun
ûrinîluwat
Sun and Moon
ûriyat nîlô
sun and moon
ûri
noun. sun
ûrî
feminine name. (Lady of the) Sun
ûrinîluwat
Sun and Moon
ûriyat nîlô
sun and moon
A noun translated “sun” (SD/306, 428). This word appears in the forms ûrê, ûri and ûrî, but Tolkien declared that the form with long î is actually the personified form Ûrî “Lady of the Sun” (SD/426), perhaps the Adûnaic name of Q. Arien. The form ûrê only appears once (SD/426), so ûri is probably to be preferred as the ordinary word for Sun, especially since it is a neuter noun, which ordinarily cannot end in a long -ê (SD/427). Tolkien lists the “later forms Uir, Ŷr” (SD/306), one of which may be the Westron word for “sun”, most likely Wes. uir. As suggested by several authors (AAD/24, EotAL/UR), ûri is probably derived from the Elvish root ᴹ√UR.