úlumë adv. "ever", at all times (in a series or period) (PE17:156). Cf. ullumë.
Quenya
illumë
always
illumë
adverb. *always
Element in
- Q. ono alyë eterúna me illumë ilya raxellor “but deliver us always from all dangers” ✧ VT44/09
Elements
Word Gloss il- “every, *all” lúmë “time, period of time, hour” Variations
- illume ✧ VT44/09
úlumë
ever
írë
when
írë (2) conj. "when" (subordinate conjunction, not question-word: írë Anarinya queluva, "when my sun faileth") (FS). Compare yá #2.
í(qua), illume, iquallume
conjunction. when, whenever
voro
ever, continually
voro, voro- adv. "ever, continually" (BOR, Narqelion) Compare vor. (Focusing on the gloss "continually", post-Tolkien writers have sometimes used voro for "still, yet", but for this sense the term en is available.) The variants vora, vorë were used for "always" in drafts for a Quenya version of the Sub Tuum Praesidium, but Tolkien eventually replaced such forms with the unrelated word illumë (VT44:9). Compare vórë, vórëa.
ia
ever
[ia adv. "ever" (GEY, EY); replaced by oia.]
oi
ever
oi adv. "ever" (OY)
vor
ever
vor, voro adv. "ever" (BOR, LT1:250, 273 [only voro_ in the Etymologies]; also in Narqelion)_
vorë
adverb. *always
Changes
vora→ vore “*always” ✧ VT44/09vore→ illume ✧ VT44/09Variations
vora✧ VT44/09 (vora)vore✧ VT44/09 (vore)
yá
when
yá (2) conj. "when" in the sentence yá hrívë tenë, ringa ná "when winter comes, it is cold" (VT49:23). Compare írë #2.
yá
conjunction. when
Derivations
- √YA “*there, over there; (of time) back, ago, [ᴹ√] there, over there; (of time) back, ago”
Element in
- Q. násië “now and at the hour of our death: Amen” ✧ VT43/34; VT43/34
- Q. yá hríve menë, ringa ná “when winter comes/arrives/is with us, it is cold” ✧ VT49/23 (
yá hríve tene, ringa ná)Variations
- ya ✧ VT43/34
vora
always
vora, vorë adv. "always"; see voro
malumë
adverb. when
Cognates
- ᴺS. mallú “when, (orig.) what time”
Elements
Word Gloss ma “interrogative particle” lúmë “time, period of time, hour”
illumë adv. "always" (VT44:9)