Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : MARA¹

ᴱ√MARA¹ root. “ripe, yellow”

⚠️ᴱ√MARA¹ root. “ripe, yellow”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “ripe, yellow”, a variant of ᴱ√MALA² “yellow” (QL/59). It had derivatives like ᴱQ. marin(a)/G. mar(o)n “ripe” and ᴱQ. marin/G. maros “ripe fruit” (QL/59; GL/56). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing; one sign of its abandonment is the change of “orange” from ᴱQ. kulmarin (kul- + marin) to ᴹQ. kuluma (QL/49; Ety/KUL).

References ✧ QL/59, 63

Glosses

“ripe, yellow” ✧ QL/63

MARA “ripe, yellow” bears an obvious family relationship to MALA² “yellow” ✧ QL/63
‽MṚKṚ “*juice” is probably a variant of MARA¹ “ripe, yellow”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. mar- “to get ripe, come to ripeness, get ready, grow up, get mellow” ✧ QL/59; QL/63
> ᴱQ. marin “(ripe) fruit (of apple type)” ✧ QL/59
- ⇒ ᴱQ. kulmarin “orange” ✧ QL/49
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. kulmarinda “orange-coloured” ✧ QL/49
- ⇒ ᴱQ. marinne “fruit tree” ✧ QL/59
> ᴱQ. marin(a) “ripe, mature” ✧ QL/59
> ᴱQ. maru “pulp” ✧ QL/59
> G. mar(o)n “ripe”
> G. maros “ripe fruit”