yasse

adverb. there [yonder]; once upon a time, once upon a time; there [yonder]

A correlative appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/97, 111), a combination of ᴹQ. ya “yonder” and the locative suffix ᴹQ. -sse. In The Etymologies of the 1930s, it was based on ᴹQ. yá “ago” and translated as “once upon a time” (Ety/YA). In Tolkien’s later writings, ya was a relative pronoun and not a demonstrative, but was still connected with the past and so might still mean “once upon a time”.

yasse tintilar i eleni

*wherein the stars tremble

yassen elli atintillinar

*wherein the stars tremble

elli yas atintilar

*wherein the stars tremble

ya

pronoun. remote demonstrative