BAN
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BAN is a Primitive Quendian root with two different significations. BAN[1] signifies "fair, beautiful", originally having "referred simply to 'beauty' — but with implication that it was due to lack of fault, or blemish".[1] BAN[2] signifies "meet, come up against".[2]
Tolkien experimented with the idea that BAN was related to MAN ("good").[1][3]
Derivatives of BAN[1]
- Quenya: Vána; vanya; linda; vanima ("beautiful"); úvano, úvanimo[1]
- Sindarin: bân, bain ("blessed, fair, favourable, good, without evil/bad element"); gwain ("blonde")[1]
Derivatives of BAN[2]
Other versions of the legendarium
In the Qenya Lexicon appears the root VANA-, yielding Qenya vane ("fair, lovely").[4] In the Etymologies appears the root BAN-, yielding Quenya vanya ("beautiful"), vanima ("fair"), úvanimo ("monster"), etc.[5][3]
See also
The Sundocarme "Beautiful" Group | |
AL ("good") · BAN ("fair, beautiful") · IR ("desire") · KOB/KOM ("gather, collect") · MAY ("excellent, admirable") · MĬR ("precious") |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), pp. 149-50 (root appearing as "√BAN." and "√BAN-; BAN-")
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 150 (appearing as "√BAN")
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003, p. 7
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon", in Parma Eldalamberon XII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 351