Eldamo : Quenya : fana

Q. fana n. “raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit” (Category: to Seem)

Q. fana, n. “raiment, veil; (bright) shape or figure; bodily form of an angelic spirit” (Category: to Seem)

References ✧ PE17/26, 173-176, 179-180; RGEO/60, 66

Glosses

Variations

S. fân took on, after the Noldor came to Middle-Earth, the meaning of fana ✧ PE17/174
S. fân after the coming of the Exiles to Middle-earth assumed the meaning of fana ✧ PE17/176
S. fân “cloud” later became used in the same sense as its cognate fana “radiant and majestic figure” ✧ PE17/180
S. fân “cloud” came to have the same sense as fana ✧ RGEO/66

Inflections

Element In

Q. Valar ar Maiar fantaner nassentar fanainen ve quenderinwe coar ar larmar “Valar and Maiar cloaked their true-being in veils, like to Elvish bodies and raiment” ✧ PE17/174; PE17/175

Cognates

S. fân “(white) cloud; veil, curtain; form or vision of a spiritual being; spirit [embodied]” ✧ PE17/26; PE17/174; RGEO/66

Derivations

< √PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ PE17/26 (FAN); PE17/179; RGEO/66 (Fana-)
- < √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237
< ✶phanā “veil, cloud” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
- < √PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ PE17/173; PE17/174
  - < √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237
- < √PHAY “spirit” ✧ NM/237
  - < √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237

Phonetic Developments