Q. Araman loc. “Outside Aman, *Beside Aman”
A wasteland north-east of Valinor (S/80), this name is a compound of ar- “outside” and Aman. If Aman is considered to be the entire continent, Araman is still within that land, so “*Beside Aman” is another possible interpretation, albeit not one that Tolkien used.
Conceptual Development: In most of the earlier stories, this region was called Eruman, first as ᴱQ. Eruman or Erumáni “beyond the abode of the Mánir” in earliest Lost Tales (LT1/91), then as ᴹQ. Eruman in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/260, LR/236). In The Etymologies, it was derived from erume “desert” (Ety/ERE). In Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s, Tolkien changed Eruman >> Araman (MR/123), perhaps because he decided that Eru was another name for God.
References ✧ LT1/83; LT1I; MR/123; MRI/Araman, Eruman; SA/ar, mān; SI; SMI/Araman, Eruman; WJI/Araman, Eruman
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| ar- | “by-, beside, near” | ||
| Aman | “Blessed Realm” | ✧ SA/mān | |
| √AR | “beyond, further than; outside; beside, alongside” | ✧ SA/ar | |
ᴹQ. Eruman loc. “desert N.E. of Valinor”
References ✧ Ety/ERE; LRI; MR/123; MRI; SMI/Araman, Eruman
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| erume | “desert” | ✧ Ety/ERE |
ᴱQ. Eruman loc. “beyond the abode of the Mánir”
References ✧ GL/20, 31; LBI; LT1/79, 83, 91, 131, 155; LT1A/Eruman, Neni Erúmëar; LT1I/Arvalin, Eruman; LT2I; QL/36
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| ᴱ√EÐE¹ | “out” | ✧ LT1A/Eruman (ERE) | |
| máne | “spirit of the air” | plural | ✧ LT1A/Eruman (Mánir) |
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| ᴱ✶eruᶻmāni > Erumāni | [eðusmānī] > [eðusmāni] > [eðuzmāni] > [ezuzmāni] > [ezumāni] > [erumāni] | ✧ QL/36 |