Quenya 

oi(o)

noun/adverb. ever, everlastingly; an endless period, ever, everlastingly; an endless period, *aeon

Cognates

  • S. ui “ever”

Derivations

  • √OY “ever, continual, unceasing” ✧ PE17/069

Element in

  • ᴺQ. úoio “never”
  • Q. Coron Oiolairë “Mound Ever-summer”
  • Q. oialë “forever; everlastingly, eternally, in eternity, forever; everlastingly, eternally, in eternity; [ᴹQ.] everlasting age” ✧ RGEO/61
  • Q. Oiencarmë “Perpetual Production”
  • Q. oiolairë “ever-summer (a species of tree)”
  • Q. Oiolossë “Ever (Snow) White” ✧ PE17/069; RGEO/61; SA/los
  • Q. Oiomúrë
  • Q. tennoio “forever, forever[more]” ✧ UT/317

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√OY > oi-[oj-] > [oi-]✧ PE17/069

Variations

  • oi- ✧ PE17/069
  • oi ✧ RGEO/61
  • oio ✧ RGEO/61; SA/los; UT/317
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oi

ever

oi adv. "ever" (OY)

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.]

vor

ever

vor, voro adv. "ever" (BOR, LT1:250, 273 [only voro_ in the Etymologies]; also in Narqelion)_

úlumë

ever

úlumë adv. "ever", at all times (in a series or period) (PE17:156). Cf. ullumë.