Eldamo : Quenya : -r(o)

Q. #-r(o) suf. “agental suffix” (Category: Doer, Agent)

Q. #-r(o), suf. “agental suffix” (Category: Doer, Agent)

An agental suffix derived from ancient ✶-rō̆ (WJ/371), usually appearing as suffixal -r but sometimes as -ro as in quentaro “speaker” (PE19/83). Tolkien indicated -rō was sometimes accompanied by nasal infixion, and that there was another variant -rdŏ > rd (WJ/371), but there are no clear signs of -r(d) in his later writings (but see below).

Conceptual Development: There are no examples of -ro in the Early Qenya of the 1910s and 20s, but there are examples of agental -r and sometimes -ar, as in ᴱQ. maksar “cook” from ᴱQ. maksa- (QL/59), and ᴱQ. vaktelear “merchant” from ᴱQ. vaktele “trade” (QL/99). There are also examples of -r(d), such as ᴱQ. ektar (ektard-) “swordman” (QL/35) and ᴱQ. moar (moard-) “shepherd” (QL/60).

References ✧ PE18/100; VT41/13; WJ/371

Variations

#-ro ✧ PE18/100
#-r ✧ VT41/13; WJ/371

Element In

ᴺQ. !cuitar “alarm, device to waken somebody”
ᴺQ. !hatar “thrower (of spears and darts)”
ᴺQ. !mancaro “tradesman, trader, merchant”
ᴺQ. !mótaro “worker”
ᴺQ. !tanar “indicator, [linguistics] demonstrative”
Q. Avar “Refuser, Elf who did not journey to Aman” ✧ WJ/371
Q. Calantar “Light-giver”
Q. Envinyatar “Renewer”
Q. Haimenar “*Far-farer”
Q. Istar “Wizard, (lit.) One Who Knows”
Q. maitar “artist; poet”
Q. #nostar “parent, begetter”
Q. ohtar “warrior”
Q. Telcontar “Strider”
Q. quentaro “speaker, reciter” ✧ PE18/100
Q. sanar “mind, thinker, reflector” ✧ VT41/13

Derivations

< ✶-ro “an old agental formation” ✧ WJ/371 (-rŏ)

Phonetic Developments

✶-rŏ > #-r

[-ro] > [-r]

✧ WJ/371

ᴹQ. #-ro suf. “agental suffix” (Category: Doer, Agent)

See Q. #-r(o) for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/ÑGAN

Element In

ᴹQ. ehtyar “spearman”
ᴹQ. istyar “scholar, learned man, lore-master, wizard”
ᴹQ. kemnaro “potter”
ᴹQ. mahtar “warrior”
ᴹQ. makar “tradesman”
ᴹQ. nandaro “harper” ✧ Ety/ÑGAN (ñandaro)
ᴹQ. neuro “follower, successor”
ᴹQ. ontaro “begetter, parent”
ᴹQ. qentaro “narrator, reciter, minstrel”
ᴹQ. tambaro “woodpecker, (lit.) knocker”
ᴹQ. Vaiaro “Ulmo”

ᴱQ. #-(a)r suf. “masculine/agental suffix” (Category: Doer, Agent)

See Q. #-r(o) for discussion.

References ✧ GL/34; PE15/78; QL/43, 59-60, 63-64, 75, 80, 90, 94, 99, 102

Variations

#-r ✧ GL/34; PE15/78; QL/43; QL/59; QL/60; QL/63; QL/64; QL/75; QL/80; QL/90; QL/94
#-ar ✧ QL/99; QL/102

Element In

ᴱQ. Kapalimor
ᴱQ. faikar “destroyer, slayer; bane” ✧ GL/34
ᴱQ. indor “master of house” ✧ QL/43
ᴱQ. maksar “cook” ✧ QL/59
ᴱQ. moar(do) “shepherd” ✧ QL/60 (moar)
ᴱQ. mulmar “miller” ✧ QL/63
ᴱQ. naqar “thief” ✧ QL/64
ᴱQ. ohtar “warrior” ✧ PE15/78
ᴱQ. pómear “northern man, norseman” ✧ QL/75 (pōmear)
ᴱQ. ristar “sower” ✧ QL/80
ᴱQ. tektar “writer” ✧ QL/90
ᴱQ. tongar “smith” ✧ QL/94
ᴱQ. vaktelear “merchant” ✧ QL/99
ᴱQ. vardar “king” ✧ QL/102