auta- (2) vb. "invent, originate, devise" (GAWA/GOWO) This could be obsoleted by # 1 above; on the other hand, the verbs would be quite distinct in the past tense, where auta- #2 would likely have the straightforward form *autanë.
Quenya
auta-
go away, leave
auta-
verb. go away
auta-
invent, originate, devise
auta-
verb. to go (away), depart, leave; to disappear, be lost, pass away
Cognates
Derivations
- √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out” ✧ PE17/063; PE17/063; PE17/148; WJ/365
- ✶awta- ✧ PE17/063; WJ/366; WJ/366
- √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out”
Element in
- ᴺQ. autaila “going, passing, nearly gone”
- Q. auta i lómë “The night is passing!” ✧ S/190; WJ/166
- Q. áva márië “go happily” ✧ PE17/162
- Q. vanwa “gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, [ᴹQ.] gone for good; [ᴱQ.] on the road” ✧ PE17/063; WJ/366
- ᴺQ. autamar “museum, (lit.) hall of the past”
- Q. yéni ve lintë yuldar avánier “the years have passed like swift draughts” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. yéni avánier ve lintë yuldar “years have passed away like swift draughts” ✧ RGEO/58
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √AWA > auta- [awta] > [auta] ✧ PE17/063 ✶wāne > vāne [wāne] > [βāne] > [vāne] ✧ PE17/063 √AWA > auta- [awta] > [auta] ✧ PE17/063 √AWA/WĀ > auta [awta] > [auta] ✧ PE17/148 √AWA > auta- [awta] > [auta] ✧ WJ/365 Variations
- auta- ✧ PE17/063; PE17/063; WJ/366
- av|va ✧ PE17/063
- auta ✧ PE17/148
auta-
verb. to possess, own, keep
vanya-
go, depart, disappear
vanya- (2) vb. "go, depart, disappear", pa.t. vannë (WAN). The verb auta- may have replaced this word in Tolkien's later conception.
öa-
verb. to possess, own, keep
Derivations
- √AW “possess, own, keep (have in hand, use or with one)” ✧ PE22/151
Element in
- ᴺQ. öamo “owner”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √AW > auta [awta-] > [auta-] ✧ PE22/151 √AW > ăw̯a > oa [awa-] > [oa-] ✧ PE22/151 √AW > āva [āwa] > [āβa] > [āva] ✧ PE22/151
lenweta-
go away, migrate, leave ones abode
lenweta- vb. "go away, migrate, leave ones abode", pa.t. lenwentë (PE17:51)
oantë
went away (to another place)
oantë vb. "went away (to another place)"; past tense of auta-. Also perfect oantië. (WJ:366, VT48:32)
vánë
vánë
vánë past tense of auta-, q.v. (WJ:366)
lelya-
go, proceed (in any direction), travel
lelya- (1) vb. "go, proceed (in any direction), travel", pa.t. lendë / elendë (WJ:363, VT14:5, PE17:139) At one point Tolkien assigned a more specific meaning to the underlying root LED: "go away from the speaker or the point in mind, depart" (PE17:52), which would make lelya- a near synonym of auta-. The same source denies that the derivatives of _LED _were used simply for "go, move, travel", but elsewhere Tolkien assigns precisely that meaning to lelya-.
lenna-
go
lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.
vánië
vánië
vánië vb., an augmentless perfect of auta- (q.v.) that may occur in verse; regular form avánië (WJ:366)
avánië
avánië
avánië, pl. avánier, perfect tense of auta-, q.v. (WJ:366)
anwë
anwë
†anwë (1) vb. archaic past tense of auta-, q.v. (WJ:366)
men-
go
#men- (4) vb. "go" (VT47:11, cf. VT42:30, VT49:23), attested in the aorist (menë) in the sentence imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië "between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon". In the verb nanwen- "return" (or go/come back), -men- is changed to -wen- following nan- "back" (etymological form cited as nan-men-, PE17:166). In examples from VT49:23, 24, Tolkien used men- in the sense of "go as far as": 1st person sg. aorist menin (menin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist menë, present tense ména- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense mennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative (mennen sís "I arrive[d] here"), perfect eménië "has just arrived", future menuva "will arrive". All of these examples were first written with the verb as ten- rather than men-, Tolkien then emending the initial consonant.
auta- (1) vb. "go away, leave" (leave the point of the speaker's thought); old "strong" past tense anwë, usually replaced by vánë, perfect avánië but when the meaning is purely physical "went away (to another place)" rather than "disappear", the past tense oantë, perfect oantië was used. Past participle vanwa "gone, lost, no longer to be had, vanished, departed, dead, past and over" (WJ:366)