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

• Q. Amanar “Yule”
• Q. Anarcalin “*Sun-Bright” ✧ PE21/86
• Q. Anar caluva tielyanna “The sun shall shine upon your path” ✧ UT/022
• Q. Anardil “*Lover of the Sun” ✧ PE17/152
• Q. Anárion “*Son of the Sun” ✧ SA/nár
• Q. anar púrëa tihta “a bleared sun blinking” ✧ MC/222; MC/222
• Q. Anarríma “*Sun Border”
• Q. Anarya “Sunday, (lit.) Sun-day”
• Q. ceuranar “new sun after solstice”
• Q. coranar “(solar) year, (lit.) sun-round”
• ᴺQ. táranar “noon, (lit.) high-sun”
• ᴺQ. oranar “noon, (lit.) above Sun”
• ᴺQ. sardanar “corundum, (lit.) hard sun”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√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