varya

adjective. different

A word appearing as ᴱQ. varya “different” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, related to ᴱQ. vāra “other” under the early root ᴱ√VARA (QL/100).

Neo-Quenya: The later word for “other” is hyana, so I would update the early adjective varya to ᴺQ. hyanya “different” and would use it for “strange, unusual” as well. Luinyelle independently suggested hyanya as a neologism for “strange, alien, odd, weird” in a 2026-04-02 post to the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS). Tamas Ferencz instead suggested ᴺQ. aia “strange, unusual” based on [ᴹQ.] aiano “stranger” as published in PE22, but PE23 revealed that the base aia- meant “other”, and I believe this element was replaced by hya in Tolkien’s later writings.