Q. (apa)ruivë n. “wild fire, fire as conflagration” (Category: Fire)
A word appearing as ruive “wild fire - fire as conflagration” in etymological notes from around 1964 (DD), along with a longer variant aparuive (PE17/183). The short form ruive is derived from the root √RUYU “blaze (red)”, but it is not clear what the apa- prefix means in the longer form.
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s there was a noun ᴱQ. (uru)purnie “conflagration”, an elaboration of ᴱQ. pur (purn-) “a fire” with an (optional) prefix of ᴱQ. uru “fire” (QL/75), so perhaps “*(lit.) fiery fireness”.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d use ruive for a basic “wild fire”, and augmented aparuivë for a massive conflagration.
References ✧ PE17/183
Glosses
Variations
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| √RUYU > ruive | [ruiwe] > [ruiβe] > [ruive] | ✧ PE17/183 |
ᴱQ. (uru)purnie n. “conflagration” (Category: Fire)
Reference ✧ QL/75 ✧ “conflagration”
Elements
| uru | “fire” | ✧ QL/75 | |
| pur | “a fire, an artificial fire” | stem | ✧ QL/75 (purn-) |
| -ie | “abstract noun” | ✧ QL/75 (#-ie) |