ᴹQ. fárea adj. “enough, sufficient” (Category: Enough)
A word appearing as farea “enough, sufficient” in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed under the root ᴹ√PHAR “reach, go all the way, suffice” (Ety/PHAR). Ink revisions changed the form to fā̆rea (EtyAC/PHAR). In the poem Fíriel’s Song from around this same time, Tolkien had fárea “enough” in the phrase ananta úva táre fárea, ufárea “but yet it will not be enough, not enough” (LR/72).
References ✧ Ety/PHAR; EtyAC/PHAR; LR/72
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| ᴹ√PHAR | “reach, go all the way, suffice” |
| #-a | “adjectival suffix” |
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| ᴹ√PHAR > farea | [pʰarea] > [ɸarea] > [farea] | ✧ Ety/PHAR |
| ᴹ√PHAR > fā̆rea | [pʰarea] > [ɸarea] > [farea] | ✧ EtyAC/PHAR |