Sar

sar (pl. *sarni) is a noun meaning "stone" in Quenya.

Etymology

From PQ *sarno, root SAR.

Sar is unusual in Quenya for being a proper one-syllable noun whose vowel is not compensatorily lengthened in the nominative case.

Example

• Elessar

Cognates

• Sindarin: sarn

Other versions

The Etymologies give the stem of the word as sard- (eg. plural sardi) however in another source, the stem of the name Elessar is given as Elesarno. This, and the Sindarin word sarn, point out that the stem was corrected by Tolkien to sarn-.

References

• The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
• Quenya Corpus Wordlist edited by Helge Kåre Fauskanger