Quenya 

Valatári

vala-queen

Valatári noun "Vala-queen" (BAL; this entry of the Etymologies states that Vala has no feminine form except this compound, but Silm gives Valië as a feminine form). The word Valatári is apparently also the unchanged plural form, so used in this quote: "The Valatári were Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Vana, Vaire, Este, Nessa, Uinen" (BAL; Tolkien later reclassified Uinen as a Maia, not a Valatári/Valië). Notice that the plural form of Valatar would apparently also be *Valatári.

Valatar

gen.sg. valatáren

Valatar (Valatár- as in "gen.sg. Valatáren", in Tolkien's later Quenya this is a dative singular instead) noun "Vala-king", applied to the nine chief (male) Valar: Manwe, Ulmo, Aule, Mandos, Lorien, Tulkas, Ossë, Orome, and Melko[r]. _Note: This list, set down in the _Etymologies, differs from the scenario of the published Silmarillion; Ossë is not a Vala in Tolkien's later conception.(BAL, VT46:17). Compare Valatári.

Valis

female vala

Valis noun "female Vala" (also Valdë) (LT1:272; in Tolkien's later Quenya Valië)

Valdë

female vala

Valdë noun "female Vala" (also Valis) (LT1:272, in Tolkien's later Quenya Valië, Valatári)


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Qenya 

valatári

proper name. Vala-queen

Title for the great female Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tári “queen” (Ety/BAL).

Elements

WordGloss
Vala“Power, God”
tári“queen”

valatar

proper name. Vala-king

Title of the nine great male Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tar- “king” (Ety/BAL, TĀ). Its (ᴹQ) genitive and plural forms Valatáren and Valatári indictate that its stem form is Valatár-. In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien consider this as a name for Aragorn’s father (TI/363).

Cognates

  • Ilk. Balthor “Vala-king” ✧ Ety/BAL
  • N. Baldor “*Vala-king” ✧ EtyAC/TĀ; EtyAC/TĀ

Elements

WordGloss
Vala“Power, God”
tar-“high; king or queen (in compounds)”
Qenya [Ety/BAL; EtyAC/TĀ; TI/363; TII/Valatar] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Doriathrin

balthor

proper name. Vala-king

A title in The Etymologies translated “Vala-king”, a combination of the root ᴹ√BAL and Ilk. tôr “king”, also attested in its plural form Balthorin (Ety/BAL). It is an example of how voiceless stops became spirants after liquids l and r.

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Valatar “Vala-king” ✧ Ety/BAL

Derivations

Elements

WordGloss
BAL“*power”
tôr“king”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶bal’tār- > Balthor[baltār] > [baltōr] > [balθōr] > [balθor]✧ Ety/BAL
Doriathrin [Ety/BAL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

bal’tār-

proper name. Vala-king

Derivatives

  • Ilk. Balthor “Vala-king” ✧ Ety/BAL

Variations

  • bal’tar- ✧ EtyAC/BAL
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/BAL; EtyAC/BAL] Group: Eldamo. Published by