már

már (pl. mardi) means "dwelling" in Quenya.^:64

It was used with a defining genitive or in a genitival compound. If added to a personal name, it referred to the residence of the named head of a family and included the adjacent lands attached to permanent buildings and dwellings (ex. Ingwemar). When added to the name of a people, it referred to the whole area occupied by them (ex. Valimar, Eldamar). In many cases it thus became synonymous with nórë.

There are several specifically defined meanings where it did not apply. It was not used in the context of a single person. It was not used to mean a small separate building with a specific function, such as a bake-house or wood-house, which was usually called "köa". It was also not used to mean "house" in the sense of a family of power or authority, which was instead represented by words meaning "kindred".^:fn3

Etymology

From root MBAR "dwelling, habitation".

Other forms

• Mardello "from home" (poet. "World")

Cognates

• Sindarin, bar, nos

See also

• Eldamar
• Eämbar = "Sea Home"
• Vinyamar = "New Home"
• Ingwemar
• mar "dwell"
• oromar "high hall"
• mardo "dweller"
• Mardil Voronwë

Notes

Helge Fauskanger believes that már is unlikely to have the stem-form mard- and that the root resulted to two words: már (mar-) for "home, house", whereas mar (mard-) for "earth, world". Helge Fauskanger, "Quettaparma Quenyallo", Ardalambion