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Early Primitive Elvish

dyē

root. behind, back (before of time)

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “behind, back (before of time)” and with a number of derivatives related to “yesterday” (QL/105). In later writings the Quenya word for “yesterday” was noa (VT49/34).

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶dyen(d)ye(n) ✧ QL/105
  • ᴱ✶dyeye ✧ QL/105
    • Eq. die “yesterday” ✧ QL/105
  • Eq. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
  • Eq. ie “ago, †long ago”
  • Eq. yenda “yesterday’s” ✧ QL/105
  • Eq. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
  • G. gîr “yesterday”

Element in

Variations

  • dyē ✧ QL/066
  • dyene ✧ QL/066; QL/105
  • dyeye ✧ QL/066; QL/105
  • DYĒ ✧ QL/105
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dyē

root. *gaze

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives meaning “gaze” or “look at” (QL/105). In later writings is seems this function was transferred to √TIR.

Derivatives

  • Eq. yéma “face”
  • Eq. yesta “glance, gaze” ✧ QL/105
  • Eq. yéta- “to look at” ✧ QL/105
  • G. gwint “face”
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(d)ye

root. demonstrative pointing back

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dya

root. demonstrative pointing back

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ya

root. demonstrative pointing back

Derivatives

  • Eq. ya “relative pronoun”

Variations

  • YA ✧ QL/105
  • DYA ✧ QL/105
  • YE ✧ QL/105
  • DYE ✧ QL/105
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