MOR: Difference between revisions
From Tolkien Gateway
(Created page with "__NOTOC__ '''MOR''' is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "black, dark".<ref name=L297>{{L|297}} (root appearing as "√MOR")</ref><ref name=PE17>{{PE|17}}, …") |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
In the [[The Etymologies|''Etymologies'']] appears the root MOR-, yielding [[Primitive Quendian]] ''mori'' ("black"). From this root derives such words as:<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}, p. 373</ref> | In the [[The Etymologies|''Etymologies'']] appears the root MOR-, yielding [[Primitive Quendian]] ''mori'' ("black"). From this root derives such words as:<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}, p. 373</ref> | ||
*Quenya: ''[[morna]]'' ("gloomy, sombre"); ''[[mordo]]'' ("shadow, obscurity, stain") | *Quenya: ''[[morna]]'' ("gloomy, sombre"); ''[[mordo]]'' ("shadow, obscurity, stain, smear, dimness")<ref name=VT45a/> | ||
*[[Noldorin]]: ''maur'' ("gloom"); ''[[Morn#Other versions|morn]]'' ("black")<ref>{{VT|45a}}, p. 35</ref> | *[[Noldorin]]: ''maur'' ("gloom"); ''[[Morn#Other versions|morn]]'' ("black")<ref name=VT45a>{{VT|45a}}, p. 35</ref> | ||
*[[Ilkorin]]: ''môr'' ("night") | *[[Ilkorin]]: ''môr'' ("night") | ||
Revision as of 19:52, 8 June 2011
MOR is a Primitive Quendian root signifying "black, dark".[1][2]
Derivatives
Other versions
In the Etymologies appears the root MOR-, yielding Primitive Quendian mori ("black"). From this root derives such words as:[3]
- Ilkorin: môr ("night")
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 297, (dated August 1967) (root appearing as "√MOR")
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), pp. 73, 81 , 165 (root appearing as "√MOR-")
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 373
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. 35
