Eldamo : Early Quenya : Ûr

ᴱQ. Ûr pn. “Sun, (lit.) Fire”

⚠️ᴱQ. Ûr, pn. “Sun, (lit.) Fire”

Name of the Sun in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/187), sometimes appearing as úri (MC/214, 221), derived from the root ᴱ√URU having to do with heat (QL/98).

See Q. Úr(in) for further discussion.

References ✧ LRI; LT1/85, 187; LT1A/Ûr, Urwen; LT1I; MC/214, 216, 221; PE15/77; PE16/62, 72, 74-75, 77, 100, 104; PME/98; QL/98; SMI

Glosses

“Fire” ✧ LT1/187
“Sun” ✧ LRI/Ûr; LT1/85; LT1A/Ûr; LT1I/Ûr; MC/214 (úri); MC/221 (úri); PE15/77 (úrin); PE16/62 (úri); SMI/Ûr
“the Sun” ✧ QL/98 (Ur)
“the sun (disc)” ✧ PE16/75 (úri)

Variations

Ûr ✧ LRI/Ûr; LT1/85; LT1/187; LT1A/Ûr; LT1A/Urwen; LT1I/Ûr; SMI/Ûr
Úri ✧ LT1A/Ûr; MC/214; MC/221; PE16/62; PE16/74; PE16/75
úrin ✧ PE15/77
uuri ✧ PE16/72; PE16/77
Ur ✧ PME/98; QL/98
Ūri ✧ QL/98

Urwen = Ur “the Sun” ✧ QL/98

Inflections

uurio	genitive		✧ PE16/104
úrio	genitive	“of the sun”	✧ MC/216; PE16/100
úring-	stem		✧ PE15/77
ūr-	stem		✧ PME/98; QL/98

Element In

ᴱQ. karnevaite úri kilde hísen níe nienaite “amid the red skies the Sun with wet eyes dropped tears of mist” ✧ MC/221; PE16/62; PE16/72; PE16/74
ᴱQ. ránuringwi “sun and moon”
ᴱQ. Urwen(di) “Sun-maiden” ✧ LT1A/Ûr (Urwen); LT1A/Urwen (Urwendi); QL/98 (Urwen)
ᴱQ. alkantaniéren úrio kalmainen “made it shine in the lights of the sun” ✧ MC/216; PE16/100; PE16/104
ᴱQ. karnevaite úri kilivande hísen nie nie nienaite “*red-skied the sun will gaze through a haze of tears” ✧ PE16/77
ᴱQ. úri nienaite híse “a bleared sun” ✧ MC/214
ᴱQ. Úrinki “Orbed Sun” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; LT1A/Urwen; QL/98 (Ūrinki)
ᴱQ. Úrion ✧ LT1A/Ûr

Cognates

G. aur(a) “Sun” ✧ LT1A/Ûr (Aur)
G. †Uril “Sun” ✧ LT1A/Ûr (†Uril)

Derivations

< ᴱ√URU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/98

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√URU > Ur

[ur]

✧ QL/98