yávë noun "fruit" (YAB), cf. Yavanna. Early "Qenya" has yáva (LT1:273); the form yava turns up even in later material (VT43:31)
Quenya
yáva
yáva
yáva
noun. *fruit
yávë
fruit
yávë
noun. fruit
The Quenya word for “fruit”, most notably as an element in the name Yavanna “Giver of Fruits, (lit.) fruit-gift” (S/27; SA/yávë; PE17/93) and derived from the root ᴹ√YAB of similar meaning (Ety/YAB).
Conceptual Development: This word dates back to ᴱQ. yáva “fruit, produce” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ẎAVA, already an element of Yavanna’s name (QL/105). The word reappeared as ᴹQ. yáve “fruit” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√YAB of the same meaning (Ety/YAB). In Quenya Prayers of the 1950s, the word appeared as yáva, yávë and yave (VT43/26-28).
Derivations
- ᴹ√YAB “fruit”
Element in
- Q. ar aistana i yávë mónalyo Yésus “and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus” ✧ VT43/31; VT43/31; VT43/31
- ᴺQ. relyávë “fig”
- ᴺQ. velyávë “gourd, Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family”
- Q. Yavanna “Giver of Fruits, (lit.) Fruit-gift” ✧ SA/yávë
- ᴺQ. yávelóra “fruitless”
- Q. yávië “autumn, harvest [time or act]” ✧ SA/yávë
- Q. Yávien
- ᴺQ. yávinqua “fruitful”
Variations
- yave ✧ VT43/31
- yáva ✧ VT43/31
- yáve ✧ VTE/43
Yávien
fruit
Yávien fem. name, apparently yávë "fruit" + the feminine ending -ien.
yava
adjective. whose, of which
Elements
Word Gloss ya “which, that (relative pronoun)”
mava
adverb. whose
Elements
Word Gloss ma “interrogative particle”
manwa
adjective. whose
Elements
Word Gloss man “who, who; [ᴹQ.] what”
yáva, yava see yávë