A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “give” with derivatives ON. yanta- “give” and ᴹQ. Ariante “Day-bringer” (EtyAC/YAN²). Tolkien marked this entry with a “?”, and elsewhere in The Etymologies he derived ᴹQ. anta-/N. anna- “give” from ᴹ√ANA (Ety/ANA¹), so I suspect this root was a transient idea.
Middle Primitive Elvish
ana
root. ANA
ana
root. be, exist
anat
root. ANAT
anak
root. ANAK
andā
adjective. long
anār
noun. Sun
anad
root. *long
tainā
adjective. long
nā/ana
root. be, exist
nā/ana
root. to, towards
yan
root. give
nar
root. flame, fire
ta
root. that
bányā
adjective. beautiful
a
root. intensive prefix
An “intensive” root addition described by Tolkien in The Etymologies from the 1930s (EtyAC/A). It was one of two basic intensive mechanisms, along with the (syllabic) prefixed N- (EtyAC/N). The prefixed vowel a- seems to have been used originally in Primitive Elvish when the base vowel was a, and similarly with E and I (EtyAC/E; Ety/I²); whether this was also true of the vowels o, u is unclear, as Tolkien didn’t mention them. These various vocalic intensifications were frequently accompanied by dynamic lengthening (doubling), with the example given by Tolkien being: ᴹ✶parkā “dry” → ᴹ✶apparkā “very dry, arid” (> N. afarch).
In the case of e- and i-, the examples were dero, dise → ᴹ✶Endero, ᴹ✶Indise “groom, bride”; these examples indicate that other kinds of consonant fortifications were possible, in this case nasalization of stops, which often replaced consonant-doubling for voiced stops in Primitive Elvish.
Specifically in the case of a-, however, it seems it could be used as a general intensive that “was distinct in origin, though similar in function, to the prefixed basic vowel”. Why this was true of a- alone is not clear, but there seems to have been some complex interplay between the vocalic intensives and the intensives derived from syllabic initial ṇ-, with the net result that the intensive prefix in Q. became an-, am-, añ-, depending on the initial consonant.
See the entry on the Quenya comparative for a more detailed discussion of the conceptual development of intensives in Eldarin.
auluta-
verb. [unglossed]
bay
root. [unglossed]
e
root. intensive prefix
eʒ
root. be
eʒ-
verb. to be
i
root. intensive prefix
iw
root. [unglossed], [ᴱ√] *fish
kaltwa
?. [unglossed]
karpa
root. ?
khlip
root. [unglossed]
An unglossed root in a rejected paragraph from the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s (PE22/112 note #78).
kōmā
noun. [unglossed]
maiga
root. [unglossed]
An unglossed root appearing in the first version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa from the 1930s (TQ1) to illustrate certain patterns of root formation (PE18/66). It may have serving as the basis for ᴹQ. Maia, though this word was given different derivations later.
nis
root. woman
nī
noun. woman
nī̆s
noun. woman
phan
root. [unglossed]
A deleted root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no glosses or derivatives and no clear function (EtyAC/PHAN).
skil
root. [unglossed]
A root mentioned in passing in as a variant of ᴹ√KIL “divide” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, but it had no derivatives and appeared nowhere else (Ety/KIL).
stin
root. [unglossed]
stā
root. [unglossed]
torōmā
noun. [unglossed]
uruk
root. [unglossed]
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no glosses or derivatives and no clear function (EtyAC/URUK).
us
root. [unglossed]
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with no glosses or derivatives and no clear function (EtyAC/US).
yē
root. to be
ē
root. to be
ī
root. to be
An extended root in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ√ANA “to, towards”, the apparent basis for the word ᴹQ. anta “face” (EtyAC/ANA¹), probably from the sense “face towards”.