Quenya 

úrin

blazing hot

úrin adj. "blazing hot" (LT1:271)

úrin

g.sg. úrinden

Úrin (Úrind-, as in "g.sg. Úrinden", in LotR-style Quenya this is dat.sg.) noun, a name of the Sun (UR, PE17:148; this stem was struck out in Etym, but several words that must be derived from it occur in LotR, so it seems that Tolkien restored it.)

úr(in)

proper name. Sun

A late remnant of earlier names for the Sun: ᴱQ. Ûr and ᴹQ. Úrin. In Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s, this name was changed from Úrin >> Naira >> Vása (MR/198), but the form Úr(in) occasionally appeared in some later writings (PE17/148, MR/377). This name was a derivative of the root √UR “heat, be hot” (PE17/148).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this name was ᴱQ. Ûr, Ur or Úri “Sun”, but literally meaning “Fire” (LT1/187, QL/98). The name became ᴹQ. Úrin in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/240). It was rejected in The Etymologies along with the root form ᴹ√UR, but reappeared sometimes in later writing as noted above.

Changes

  • ÚrinNaira ✧ MR/198

Derivations

  • UR “heat, be hot” ✧ PE17/148

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
UR > Úrin[ūrin]✧ PE17/148

Variations

  • Úrin ✧ MR/198 (Úrin); MRI/Úr; PE17/148
  • Úr ✧ MR/377; MRI/Úr
Quenya [MR/198; MR/377; MRI/Úr; PE17/148] Group: Eldamo. Published by

úr

fire

úr noun "fire" (UR)This stem was struck out in Etym, but a word that must be derived from it occurs in LotR, so it seems that Tolkien restored it. Early "Qenya" also has Ûr, noun "the Sun" (also Úri, Úrinci ("k"), Urwen) (LT1:271). Cf. Úri.

ruinë

fire, a blaze

ruinë noun "a fire, a blaze" (PE17:183). Compare nárë.

anar

noun. Sun

The most common Quenya name for the Sun derived from primitive ✶Anār, an augmented form of the root √NAR “fire” (Let/425; PE17/38; Ety/ANÁR; SD/302, 306).

Conceptual Development: This term appeared in Silmarillion drafts of the 1930s with the gloss “Heart of Flame” (LR/240) and as ᴹQ. Anar “sun” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, already with the derivation given above (Ety/ANÁR, NAR¹).

Cognates

  • S. Anor “Sun” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár

Derivations

  • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ Let/425; PE17/038
  • Anār “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
    • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame”

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
NAR > Anar[anār] > [anar]✧ Let/425
(A)NAR > anā̆r[anār] > [anar]✧ PE17/038
(a)nar > Anar[anār] > [anar]✧ SA/nár

Variations

  • anar ✧ MC/222; PE17/152
  • anā̆r ✧ PE17/038
Quenya [Let/425; MC/222; MR/044; MRI/Anar; NM/280; NM/281; PE17/038; PE17/148; PE17/152; PE21/86; S/099; SA/nár; SI/Anar; UT/022; UTI/Anar; WJI/Anar] Group: Eldamo. Published by

uru

fire

uru noun "fire" (LT1:271)

fire

noun "fire" (LT1:265; "Qenya" spelling . Rather nárë in LotR-style Quenya.)

úrin

adjective. (blazing) hot

Derivations

  • UR “heat, be hot”

Sindarin 

-ruin

suffix. fire

suff. #fire. Q. ruine. >> Angruin

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:183] < RUYU blaze (red). Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

anor

noun. Sun

The most common Sindarin name for the Sun derived from primitive ✶Anār, an augmented form of the root √NAR “fire” (PE17/38; Ety/ANÁR; SD/302-303, 306). The o is the result of ancient ā becoming au and then this au becoming o in polysyllables.

Conceptual Development: The term Anor was first mentioned in conjunction with early tales of Númenor (LR/41). It briefly appeared as N. {ánar >>} Anar “sun” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the entry for ᴹ√NAR (Ety/NAR¹; EtyAC/NAR¹), but as Anor under ᴹ√ANÁR (Ety/ANÁR). In The Notion Club Papers of the 1940s it was Anor, archaic †Anaur (SD/302-303, 306) and it retained this form thereafter.

Cognates

  • Q. Anar “Sun” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár
  • ᴹQ. Anar “Sun” ✧ SDI2/Anar

Derivations

  • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ PE17/038
  • Anār “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
    • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame”

Element in

  • ᴺS. anóren “sunny”
  • S. Anórien “Sunlending, *(lit.) Sun-lands” ✧ SA/nár
  • ᴺS. coranor “solar year, (lit.) sun-round”
  • S. elanor “pimpernel, small golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star” ✧ PE17/055
  • S. Minas Anor “Tower of the (Setting) Sun” ✧ SA/nár
  • S. Oranor “*(lit.) Sun-day, Sunday”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
(A)NAR > anor[anār] > [anǭr] > [anaur] > [anor]✧ PE17/038

Variations

  • anor ✧ PE17/030; PE17/038; PE17/055
Sindarin [LotRI/Anor; PE17/030; PE17/038; PE17/055; RC/297; SA/nár; SDI2/Anar; SI/Anor] Group: Eldamo. Published by

naur

fire

_ n. fire. naur an edraith ammen! _'fire [be] for rescue/saving for us'. Q. nár. >> Sammath Naur

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:38:101] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

naur

noun. fire, fire, [N.] flame

The basic Sindarin word for “fire”, derived from the root √NAR of the same meaning (LotR/942; PE17/38) and very well attested. It is derived from primitive ✱nār- since primitive long ā became au in Sindarin. It appeared as N. naur “flame” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with the same derivation (Ety/NAR). As a suffix it usually reduces to -nor, since au usually becomes o in polysyllables. As a prefix, though, it is often Nar- before consonant clusters, no doubt because the ancient long ā was shortened before it could become au.

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, the word for “fire” was G. with archaic form †sai (GL/66) clearly based on the early root ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Sári; QL/81). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, the word for “fire” was ᴱN. byr or buir from primitive ᴱ✶ [mburyē] (PE13/139). Tolkien introduced naur in The Etymologies of the 1930s and stuck with it thereafter.

Cognates

  • Q. nár “fire (as an element), fire (as an element); [ᴹQ.] flame” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár

Derivations

  • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ PE17/038

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
(A)NAR > naur[nār] > [nǭr] > [naur]✧ PE17/038

Variations

  • Naur ✧ LotR/0299; LotR/0942
Sindarin [LotR/0290; LotR/0299; LotR/0942; PE17/038; PE17/101; PM/363; SA/nár] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ûr Reconstructed

noun. fire, fire; [ᴱN.] sun

A word for “fire” attested in later writings only as an element in names, such as S. Urui “August, ✱Hot-one” (LotR/1110). It appeared as N. ûr “fire” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√UR “be hot”, but this and related words were deleted when Tolkien changed the sense of the root to “wide, large, great” (Ety/UR). However, √UR “heat” was restored in later writings (PE17/148; PE22/160), and primitive ✶ūr “a fire (on hearth)” appeared in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s, though Tolkien did mark it with a “?” (PE21/71 and note #8).

Conceptual Development: Perhaps the first precursor to this word was G. †Uril, an archaic word for the Sun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing beside its modern form G. Aur (GL/75) and clearly a derivative of the early root ᴱ√URU as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Ûr; QL/098). In Gnomish Lexicon Slips revising this document, it became {ŷr >>} hŷr “sun” (PE13/114), and in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s it became ᴱN. {húr >>} úr “sun”, derived from primitive ᴱ✶ourū̆ (PE13/155).

This in turn became N. ûr “fire” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under ᴹ√UR “be hot”, but as noted above the meaning of this root was changed in that document (Ety/UR). Although the root √UR “heat” was later restored, it isn’t clear whether Tolkien also restored ûr “fire”, though there is some secondary evidence of it: primitive ✶ūr “a fire (on hearth)” appeared in notes from the early 1950s, as also noted above (PE21/71).

Neo-Sindarin: If S. naur is (like its Quenya cognate Q. nár) more representative of an elemental or abstract notion of fire, then ûr might be used for an individual physical fire such as one in a fireplace.

Cognates

Derivations

  • ūr “a fire (on hearth)” ✧ PE21/71
    • UR “heat, be hot”

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ūr > ūr[ūr]✧ PE21/71

Variations

  • ūr ✧ PE21/71 (ūr)

ûr

fire

(heat), pl. uir. Notice the homophone ûr ”wide”.

anor

sun

(pl. Anoer if there is a pl.) Archaic Anaur (SD:306).

naur

sun

(mainly in compounds as nar-, -nor) (flame, fire), pl. noer, coll. pl. norath.

naur

fire

1) naur (in compounds nar-, -nor) (flame, sun), pl. noer, coll. pl. norath; 2) ûr (heat), pl. uir. Notice the homophone ûr ”wide”.

naur

fire

(in compounds nar-, -nor) (flame, sun), pl. noer, coll. pl. norath

bregedúr

wildfire

(i vregedúr), pl. bregedýr (i mregedýr)

narthan

fire-sign

pl. **nerthain** (VT45:20)

Black Speech

ghâsh

noun. fire

Variations

  • Ghâsh ✧ LotRI/Ghâsh
Black Speech [LotR/0327; LotR/1117; LotR/1131; LotRI/Ghâsh; PE17/048] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Adûnaic

ûri

noun. sun

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 (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.

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Anar “Sun” ✧ SD/306

Derivations

  • UR “heat, be hot”

Derivatives

  • Wes. uir “sun” ✧ SD/306

Element in

Variations

  • Ūri ✧ SD/306
  • ūrē ✧ SD/426
  • ūri ✧ SD/428
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Primitive elvish

anār

noun. Sun

Derivations

  • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame”

Derivatives

  • Q. Anar “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
  • S. Anor “Sun” ✧ SA/nár

Variations

  • (a)nar ✧ SA/nár
Primitive elvish [SA/nár] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nar

root. fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame

A root for “fire” first appearing as ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” in The Etymologies of the 1930s along with derivatives like ᴹQ. nár(e)/N. naur “flame” (Ety/NAR¹). There was also an augmented variant ᴹ√ANÁR that served as the basis for “Sun” words: ᴹQ. Anar and N. Anor (Ety/ANÁR). These roots and the various derivatives continued to appear in Tolkien’s later writings in the 1950s and 60s (PE17/38; Let/425), and in one place Tolkien specified that nār- was “fire as an element” as opposed to √RUYU for an actual blaze.

Derivatives

  • Anār “Sun”
    • Q. Anar “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
    • S. Anor “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
  • nāro “fire”
  • Q. Anar “Sun” ✧ Let/425; PE17/038
  • Q. nár “fire (as an element), fire (as an element); [ᴹQ.] flame” ✧ PE17/038
  • Q. Naira
  • S. Anor “Sun” ✧ PE17/038
  • S. naur “fire, fire, [N.] flame” ✧ PE17/038

Element in

  • Q. Narsil “Red and White Flame” ✧ Let/425; PE17/038
  • Q. Narsilion “(Song) of the Sun and Moon”
  • S. narthan “beacon”

Variations

  • (A)NAR ✧ PE17/038; PE17/147
Primitive elvish [Let/425; PE17/038; PE17/147; PE17/166] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nāro

noun. fire

Derivations

  • NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame”

Element in

Primitive elvish [PE17/039] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Noldorin 

ûr

noun. fire, heat

Noldorin [Ety/396] Group: SINDICT. Published by

ûr

noun. fire

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. úr “fire, heat” ✧ Ety/UR

Derivations

  • ᴹ√UR “be hot” ✧ Ety/UR

Element in

  • N. bregedur “wild fire” ✧ Ety/UR (Vreged-úr)
  • N. Úrui “August, *Hot-one”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√UR > úr[ūr]✧ Ety/UR

Variations

  • úr ✧ Ety/UR (úr)
  • ûr ✧ EtyAC/UR (ûr)
Noldorin [Ety/UR; EtyAC/UR] Group: Eldamo. Published by

rhuin

noun. fire

Element in

  • N. Orodruin “Mountain of Fire” ✧ TI/028
Noldorin [PE22/034; TI/028] Group: Eldamo. Published by

anaur

noun. Sun

anor

noun. Sun

Changes

  • ánarAnar ✧ Ety/NAR¹

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Anar “Sun” ✧ Ety/ANÁR; Ety/NAR¹; LR/041; LRI/Anar; SD/306; SDI2/Anar

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶Anār “Sun” ✧ Ety/ANÁR; SD/302; SD/306
    • ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” ✧ Ety/ANÁR
  • ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” ✧ Ety/NAR¹

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶anār- > Anor[anārǝ] > [anār] > [anǭr] > [anour] > [anaur] > [anor]✧ Ety/ANÁR
ᴹ✶Anār > Anaur > Anor[anār] > [anǭr] > [anour] > [anaur] > [anor]✧ SD/302
ᴹ✶Anār > Anaur > Anor[anār] > [anǭr] > [anour] > [anaur] > [anor]✧ SD/306

Variations

  • Anar ✧ Ety/NAR¹
  • ánar ✧ EtyAC/NAR¹ (ánar)
  • Anaur ✧ SDI2/Anar (Anaur)
Noldorin [Ety/ANÁR; Ety/NAR¹; EtyAC/NAR¹; LR/041; LRI/Anar; LRI/Anor; SD/303; SD/306; SDI2/Anar] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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Westron

uir

noun. sun

A word listed as a later form of Ad. ûri “sun” (SD/306) and therefore perhaps a Westron word, as suggested by Andreas Moehn (EotAL/UR). The other “later form” Ŷr is unlikely to be Westron, since y seems not to be a vowel in Westron.

Derivations

  • Ad. ûri “sun” ✧ SD/306
    • UR “heat, be hot”

Variations

  • Uir ✧ SD/306

Valarin 

uruš/rušur

noun. fire

Qenya 

úrin

proper name. Sun, (lit.) Fiery

An earlier Quenya name for the Sun appearing in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s and glossed “Fiery” (LR/240). It was sometimes used in combination with its other name Anar: Úr-anar “Red Sun” (LR/72). In a deleted entry in The Etymologies, it was given as a derivative of the root ᴹ√UR “be hot” (Ety/UR).

Derivations

  • ᴹ√UR “be hot” ✧ Ety/UR

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√UR > Úrin[ūrin]✧ Ety/UR

Variations

  • Úr-anar ✧ LR/072; LR/072; LRI/Ûr
  • Ûr ✧ SM/097
Qenya [Ety/UR; LR/072; LR/240; LRI/Ûr; LRI/Úrin; SM/097] Group: Eldamo. Published by

anar

noun. Sun

Cognates

  • Ad. ûri “sun” ✧ SD/306
  • N. Anor “Sun” ✧ Ety/ANÁR; Ety/NAR¹; LR/041; LRI/Anar; SD/306; SDI2/Anar
  • S. Anor “Sun” ✧ SDI2/Anar

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶Anār “Sun” ✧ Ety/ANÁR; SD/306
    • ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” ✧ Ety/ANÁR
  • ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” ✧ Ety/NAR¹

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
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
Qenya [Ety/ANÁR; Ety/NAR¹; EtyAC/ANÁR; LR/041; LR/072; LR/240; LRI/Anar; PE22/019; PE22/023; SD/306; SDI2/Anar] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

anār

noun. Sun

Derivations

  • ᴹ√NAR “flame, fire” ✧ Ety/ANÁR

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. Anar “Sun” ✧ Ety/ANÁR; SD/306
  • N. Anor “Sun” ✧ Ety/ANÁR; SD/302; SD/306

Element in

Variations

  • anār- ✧ Ety/ANÁR
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Gnomish

úrin

masculine name. Úrin

Changes

  • ÚrinHúrin ✧ LB/021
  • ÚrinHúrin ✧ LBI/Húrin
  • ÚrinHúrin ✧ LT1I/Úrin
  • ÚrinHúrin ✧ LT2I/Úrin
  • ÚrinHúrin ✧ PMI/Húrin
  • ÚrinHúrin ✧ SMI/Húrin
Gnomish [LB/021; LBI/Húrin; LT1I/Úrin; LT2I/Úrin; PMI/Húrin; SMI/Húrin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

uril

proper name. Sun

Cognates

  • Eq. Ûr “Sun, (lit.) Fire” ✧ LT1A/Ûr

Derivations

  • ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr
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aur(a)

noun. Sun

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as Aur “Sun” (GL/20), probably a cognate of ᴱQ. Ûr from the root ᴱ√URU as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Ûr; QL/098). It appeared as aura in G. nalos·aura “sunset” and G. orosaura “sunrise” (GL/59, 62). The word G. aur “sun” was also mentioned in Gnomish Lexicon Slips with corrections for that document (PE13/114), but by The Etymologies of the 1930s, N. aur meant “day”, whereas N. Anor became the name of the Sun (Ety/ANÁR, AR¹).

Cognates

  • Eq. Ûr “Sun, (lit.) Fire” ✧ LT1A/Ûr

Derivations

  • ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√URU > Aur[ūra] > [aura] > [aur]✧ LT1A/Ûr

Variations

  • Aur ✧ GL/20; GL/75; LT1A/Ûr; LT1I/Aur
  • aura ✧ GL/59; GL/62 (aura)
  • aur ✧ PE13/114
Gnomish [GL/20; GL/59; GL/62; GL/75; LT1A/Ûr; LT1I/Aur; PE13/114] Group: Eldamo. Published by

galaduir

proper name. Sun

hŷr

noun. sun

A word appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips of the 1910s as {ŷr >>} hŷr “sun” beside a variant G. aur of the same meaning (PE13/114).

Changes

  • ŷrhŷr ✧ PE13/114

Element in

  • G. Aura-nûmin “Sunset” ✧ PE13/114 (Hyrnymi)
  • G. Aurfaiglim “the Sun at noon” ✧ PE13/114 (Hýrfaiglin)
  • G. Auros ✧ PE13/114
  • G. hyrost “*dawn” ✧ PE13/114

Variations

  • ŷr ✧ PE13/114 (ŷr)

noun. fire

Cognates

  • Eq. “fire” ✧ LT1A/Sári

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” ✧ LT1A/Sári

Element in

  • G. Sacha “the Fire-fey” ✧ GL/66

Variations

  • sai ✧ GL/66 (sai); LT1A/Sári (sai)
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Early Noldorin

úr

noun. sun

Changes

  • húrúr ✧ PE13/155

Cognates

  • Eq. auro “sun” ✧ PE13/155
  • Et. úru ✧ PE13/155

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ourū̆ “sun” ✧ PE13/155

Element in

Variations

  • húr ✧ PE13/155 (húr)
Early Noldorin [PE13/137; PE13/151; PE13/155] Group: Eldamo. Published by

buir

noun. fire

byr

noun. fire

Derivations

Variations

  • buir ✧ PE13/139
Early Noldorin [PE13/139] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

ourū̆

noun. sun

Changes

  • ourǝourū̆ ✧ PE13/155

Derivatives

  • Eq. auro “sun” ✧ PE13/155
  • En. úr “sun” ✧ PE13/155
  • Et. úru ✧ PE13/155

Variations

  • ourǝ ✧ PE13/155 (ourǝ)
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saχ[a]

noun. fire

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” ✧ QL/081

Element in

  • ᴱ✶saχsōđa “house of fire” ✧ PE12/021; QL/081

Variations

  • saχ ✧ PE12/021; QL/081
Early Primitive Elvish [PE12/021; QL/081] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

úrin

adjective. (blazing) hot

Derivations

  • ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√URU > ūrin[ūrin]✧ QL/098

Variations

  • ūrin ✧ PME/098; QL/098
Early Quenya [LT1A/Ûr; PME/098; QL/098] Group: Eldamo. Published by

úrin

proper name. Sun, (lit.) Fire

ûr

proper name. Sun, (lit.) Fire

Name of the Sun in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/187), sometimes appearing as úri (MC/214, 221), derived from the root ᴱ√URU having to do with heat (QL/98).

Cognates

  • G. aur(a) “Sun” ✧ LT1A/Ûr
  • G. Uril “Sun” ✧ LT1A/Ûr

Derivations

  • ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√URU > Ur[ur]✧ QL/098

Variations

  • Úri ✧ LT1A/Ûr
  • úri ✧ MC/214; MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/074; PE16/075
  • úrin ✧ PE15/77
  • uuri ✧ PE16/072; PE16/077
  • Ur ✧ PME/098; QL/098
  • Ūri ✧ QL/098
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ahúra

noun. Sun

An early Qenya word for the Sun appearing in a word list from the 1920s (PE15/77). Its etymology is obscure.

Element in

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auro

noun. sun

A noun appearing in Early Noldorin Word-lists as {ūru >>} auro, cognate of ᴱN. úr “sun”, and derived from {✶ourǝ >>} ✶ourū̆ (PE13/155). Elsewhere Q. Úr(in) was a name for the Sun from the 1910s up through the 1950s, but Tolkien eventually changed this to Vása (MR/198).

Changes

  • ūruauro ✧ PE13/155

Cognates

  • En. úr “sun” ✧ PE13/155

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ourū̆ “sun” ✧ PE13/155

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ourū̆ > auro[ouru] > [ouro] > [auro]✧ PE13/155

Variations

  • ūru ✧ PE13/155 (ūru)
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sári

proper name. Sun

A name for the Sun in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/186), probably a derivative of the root ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Sári).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” ✧ LT1A/Sári

Variations

  • Sāri ✧ PE14/014
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uru

noun. fire

Cognates

  • G. ûr “smith” ✧ GL/75

Derivations

  • ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098

Element in

  • Eq. (uru)purnie “conflagration” ✧ QL/075
  • Eq. uruvoite “fiery, having fire” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
  • Eq. urúva “like fire” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√URU > uru[urū] > [uru]✧ QL/098
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torqa

adjective. blazing hot

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TORO “*bake” ✧ QL/094

Element in

  • Eq. torqele “tropic heat” ✧ QL/094

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TORO > torqa[torkʷā] > [torkʷa]✧ QL/094
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noun. fire

Cognates

  • G. “fire” ✧ LT1A/Sári

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SAH(Y)A “be hot” ✧ LT1A/Sári; QL/081

Element in

  • Eq. Sainen “Saturday”
  • Eq. saqila “fire-red, scarlet” ✧ QL/081
  • Eq. sár(e)a “fiery” ✧ QL/081

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SAHA > [sax] > [saɣ] > [sā]✧ QL/081

Variations

  • ✧ LT1A/Sári
  • ✧ PME/081
  • ✧ QL/081
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tan(y)a

noun. fire

An element meaning “fire” in some early names: tanya in ᴱQ. Tanyasalpe (LT1/187), tana in ᴱQ. Tana Qentima equivalent of G. Tôn a Gwedrin “Tale-fire” (PE15/7; LT2/197), and possibly also in ᴱQ. Fatanyu “Hell” (GL/51). Tan(y)a is likely a derivative of the early root ᴱ√tan- (GL/69, 71).

Cognates

  • G. tôn “fire (on a hearth)”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TANA “*fire, kindle”

Element in

Variations

  • Tanya ✧ LT1A/Tanyasalpë
  • Tana ✧ PE15/07
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