Daur
daur means "a stop or pause" in Sindarin.
The word also referred to a Númenórean linear measure equivalent to 5000 rangar. (See lár for more details.)
Daur in the Song of Praise
The Sindarin word Daur appears in the song of praise of Frodo and Sam at the Field of Cormallen.
It has been suggested that daur is the lenited form of taur ("lofty, noble" or "king"), however the reliability of this speculation has been contested as the syntax of the phrase does not seem to require lenition.
When analyzing the song of praise, Tolkien derived Daur from dāra "wise" with a Quenya form tāra. This replaces an earlier version from ndāra with Quenya nāra. He also queried the possibility of daur coming from lenition of base t.
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