haia

adverb. afar, afar, [ᴹQ.] far (off), far away

The adverb ᴹQ. hāya “far off, far away” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KHAYA “far, distant, remote” (Ety/KHAYA; EtyAC/KHAYA). It reappeared as haiya “far” in a phrase from the Lament of Atalante of the 1940s: haiya vahaiya sín Atalante “far far away now (is) the Downfallen” (SD/247). It appeared again as haia in the first draft of Löa Yucainen from 1958: Ai loar melle yassen ekkennen haia palantírielya yárie andavanwer “Alas beloved years in which looking afar I saw in the distance the ages long-departed” (CPT/1296). It is likely that háya, haiya, and haia are just variant spellings of the same word; compare Máya, Maiya vs. Maia.

ai! löar yassen palantírienyë andavanwë yárier

ah years in which looking far away I saw ages long-passed