Eldamo : Quenya : ruinë

Q. ruinë n. “fire, blaze” (Category: Fire)

Q. ruinë, n. “blaze, fire” (Category: Fire): ᴱQ. pur “a fire, an artificial fire”; ᴱQ. tan(y)a “fire”

A noun glossed “a fire, a blaze” in etymological notes from around 1964 (DD), derived from the root √RUYU “blaze (red)” (PE17/184). This word is for an individual fire in the physical world, as opposed to Q. nár for elemental fire, fire as a force or as an abstract concept.

Reference ✧ PE17/183 ✧ ruine “a fire, a blaze”

nār- “fire as an element” as opposed to ruine “a fire, a blaze” ✧ PE17/183

Cognates

S. ruin “red flame; fiery red”

Derivations

< √RUY “blaze (red)” ✧ PE17/183 (RUYU)

Phonetic Developments

√RUYU > ruine

[ruine]

✧ PE17/183

ᴱQ. purma n. “blaze, flame” (Category: Flame)

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “flame, blaze” derived from the early root ᴱ√PUŘU [PUÐU] (QL/75), also appearing with the gloss “blaze” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/76).

References ✧ PME/76; QL/75

Glosses

“blaze” ✧ PME/76
“flame, blaze” ✧ QL/75

Derivations

< ᴱ√PUÐU “consume by fire” ✧ QL/75 (PUŘU)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√PUŘU > purma

[puðmā] > [puðma] > [puzma] > [purma]

✧ QL/75