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'''''umbar''''' is a noun meaning "fate" in [[Quenya]].<ref name="Names">{{App|Letters}}, Note, ''The names of the letters''</ref>


'''''umbar''''' is a noun meaning "fate" in [[Quenya]].
[[Image:Umbar.gif|left]]''Umbar'' is also the name in Quenya of the sixth letter of the [[Tengwar]] alphabet.<ref name="Names"/>  It is the second letter of the second grade or [[Tyellë]], which contains "voiced stops" and it is the second letter in the labial or ''p''-series of consonants, the ''[[Parmatéma]]''.<ref name="Letters">{{App|Letters}}</ref>  In the standard spelling of Quenya ''Umbar'' represents '''MB'''.<ref>{{App|Letters}}, Note</ref>  In all other modes this letter represents '''B'''.<ref name="Letters"/>  The Westron name for this letter is '''''Bí'''''.<ref>See [[Westron Tengwar]]</ref>


==Etymology==
==Etymology==
The word ''[[ambar]]'' ("doom") may be a variant. [[Sundocarmë|Root]] [[MBARAT]]<ref name="E">{{HM|LR}}, [[The Etymologies]], p. 372</ref>
The word ''[[ambar]]'' ("doom") may be a variant. The word derives from the [[Primitive Quendian]] [[Sundocarmë|Root]] [[MBARAT]]<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}, MBARAT-</ref> It is also possible that ''umbar'' contains the prefix ''[[u-]]'' (''u + ambar''), meaning that it has mainly negative and dark connotations compared to plain ''ambar'', like ''[[Úmarth]]''.
 
It's also possible that ''umbar'' contains the prefix ''[[u-]]'' (''u + ambar''), meaning that it has mainly negative and dark connotations compared to plain ''ambar'', like ''[[Úmarth]]''.


==Examples==
==Examples==
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*[[Sindarin]] ''[[Úmarth]]''
*[[Sindarin]] ''[[Úmarth]]''


==Notes==
==External links==
The [[Haven of Umbar]] is a [[Mannish]] name of unknown meaning and origin, and despite the coincidental similarity, it is not related to Quenya.
* [http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qlist.htm Quenya Corpus Wordlist] edited by [[Helge Fauskanger]]
 
==Tengwa==
[[Image:Umbar.gif|right]]''Umbar'' is also the name of the sixth letter of the [[Tengwar]] alphabet and has the value of ''mb''. In the [[Mode of Beleriand]] and other [[Sindarin]] and [[Westron]] modes it had the value of '''b'''. In Westron it was called '''Bí'''.


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* ''[[The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' by [[Ruth S. Noel]]
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* [http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qlist.htm Quenya Corpus Wordlist] edited by [[Helge Fauskanger]]
 
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Latest revision as of 09:49, 6 April 2013

This article is about the Quenya word. For the the Haven south of Gondor, see Umbar.

umbar is a noun meaning "fate" in Quenya.[1]

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Umbar is also the name in Quenya of the sixth letter of the Tengwar alphabet.[1] It is the second letter of the second grade or Tyellë, which contains "voiced stops" and it is the second letter in the labial or p-series of consonants, the Parmatéma.[2] In the standard spelling of Quenya Umbar represents MB.[3] In all other modes this letter represents B.[2] The Westron name for this letter is .[4]

Etymology[edit | edit source]

The word ambar ("doom") may be a variant. The word derives from the Primitive Quendian Root MBARAT[5] It is also possible that umbar contains the prefix u- (u + ambar), meaning that it has mainly negative and dark connotations compared to plain ambar, like Úmarth.

Examples[edit | edit source]

Cognates[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix E, "Writing", "The Fëanorian Letters", Note, The names of the letters
  2. 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix E, "Writing", "The Fëanorian Letters"
  3. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix E, "Writing", "The Fëanorian Letters", Note
  4. See Westron Tengwar
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", MBARAT-