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'''MBAR''' is a [[Primitive Quendian]] [[Sundocarme|root]] signifying "dwell; to make a decision". [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] notes that English "'[s]ettle' is in fact, in its various branches of meaning, a very close rendering of the sense of base √MBAR".<ref name=PEE>{{PE|Eldarin}}, p. 161-2 (stem appearing as "√MBAR" and "√MBAR-")</ref>
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'''MBAR''' is a [[Primitive Quendian]] [[Sundocarme|root]] signifying "dwell; to make a decision". [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] notes that English "'[s]ettle' is in fact, in its various branches of meaning, a very close rendering of the sense of base √MBAR".<ref name=PEE>{{PE|Eldarin}}, pp. 163-4 (stem appearing as "√MBAR" and "√MBAR-")</ref>
  
 
==Derivatives==
 
==Derivatives==

Latest revision as of 23:18, 14 February 2011

MBAR is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "dwell; to make a decision". Tolkien notes that English "'[s]ettle' is in fact, in its various branches of meaning, a very close rendering of the sense of base √MBAR".[1]

[edit] Derivatives

[edit] Other versions of the legendarium

In the Qenya Lexicon appears the root MBARA, from which was derived Qenya mar ("dwelling of men, -land, the Earth").[2] In the Etymologies appear the root MBAR- signifying "dwell, inhabit" (emended from "dwell, build, inhabit").[3][4]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑ 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. 163-4 (stem appearing as "√MBAR" and "√MBAR-")
  2. ↑ 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)
  3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", p. 372
  4. ↑ 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. 33
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