Q. síra n. and adv. “*this day, today” (Category: Today)
A word for “*this day, today” appearing in the phrase ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma “give us this day our daily bread” from later versions of the Átaremma prayer composed in the mid-1950s (VT43/12). The etymology of síra is unclear, but it likely contains sí “now” as suggested by the editors Wynne, Smith, and Hostetter (VT43/18), and is cognate to S. sír “this day” from contemporaneous Sindarin versions of the prayer (VT44/21). The existence of r in its Sindarin equivalent implies primitive *sīrā.
Conceptual Development: Early versions of the Átaremma prayer had other words for “this day”: hyáre or hyáze, and siare or siar (VT43/8-11), all of which seem to be si- “this” [sometimes > sy-] + árë “day” (VT43/18). The form hyáze [appearing in the first two drafts] implies primitive *āsē < √AS. These forms may be from a time before Tolkien decided that Q. aurë was “day” and thus were part of the conceptual framework in which [ᴹQ.] are was the usual word for “day” (Ety/AR¹).
Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 had ᴹQ. sinar “today, nowadays” and sinaryas “today, this very day” with suffix ᴹQ. -ar(yas); in this paradigm ᴹQ. ara was “day” (PE23/109). The form sinar “today” also appeared in the contemporaneous Quenya Verbal System (QVS) in the phrases: ᴹQ. sinar Orome i·tauresse faralye “today O. is hunting in the forest” (PE22/116) and ᴹQ. manna lé sinar? “whither (are) you (going) this morning?” (PE22/124). The form sinar appeared a final time in Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2) from the early 1950s in the phrase ai tulinye sinar (entar) “I may come today (tomorrow)” (PE22/139), but the section where it appeared was deleted (PE22/139 note #48).
The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. íne “to-day” based on ᴱ√I that was the root of relative words (QL/41). It also had ᴱQ. tamíne “today” with the addition of ᴱQ. táma “this” (QL/87), and ᴱQ. et(t)amīne “today” with the further addition of Q. e(t)- “that by you” (QL/34).
Reference ✧ VT43/18 ✧ “*this day”
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| sí | “now” |
| ? |
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Q. siar(ë) n. and adv. “*today, this day” (Category: Today)
References ✧ VT43/18
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| si¹ | “this, here” |
| árë | “sunlight, warmth (especially of the sun); day” |
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Q. hyárë n. and adv. “*today, this day” (Category: Today)
References ✧ VT43/18
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| ✶sī | “now or here” |
| árë | “sunlight, warmth (especially of the sun); day” |
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Q. sinar n. and adv. “today” (Category: Today)
Reference ✧ PE22/139 ✧ “today”
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| sina | “this” |
| árë | “sunlight, warmth (especially of the sun); day” |
Element In
ᴹQ. sinar(yas) n. and adv. “today, nowadays, this morning, this very day” (Category: Today)
References ✧ PE22/116, 124; PE23/109-110
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| si | “this” | |
| -ar(yas) | “-day” | ✧ PE23/109 (-ar); PE23/109 (-aryas) |
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ᴱQ. et(t)amíne n. “today” (Category: Today)
References ✧ QL/34, 41, 87
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| e-¹ | “that by you” | ✧ QL/34 |
| tamíne | “today” | ✧ QL/34 (tamīne) |
ᴱQ. íne adv. “to-day” (Category: Today)
References ✧ QL/41, 87
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| ᴱ√I > íne | [īnē] > [īne] | ✧ QL/41 |