Yavanna

fruit-gift

Yavanna, fem. name: Yav-anna, "Fruit-gift" (PE17:93) or "Fruit-giver", name of a Valië, spouse of Aulë, associated especially with plants (YAB, ANA1; cf. yávë)

yavanna

feminine name. Giver of Fruits, (lit.) Fruit-gift

Valië of the earth, spouse of Aulë, whose name was translated “Giver of Fruits” (S/27). This name is a compound of yávë “fruit” and the noun anna “gift” (SA/yávë, anna), so literally meant “fruit-gift” (PE17/93).

Conceptual Development: This name dates back to the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/66), and ᴱQ. Yavanna appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as a derivative of the root ᴱ√ẎAVA along with other words having to do with “fruit” (LTA1/Yavanna, QL/105). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, ᴹQ. Yavanna appeared with the etymology given above (Ety/ANA¹, YAB). This etymology appeared in later writings as well (PE17/93).

Cognates

• N. Ivann “Fruit-giver” ✧ PMI/Yavanna

Element in

• Q. yavannamírë “Jewel of Yavanna”
• Q. Yavannië “September, *Yavanna-ness” ✧ SA/yávë
• Q. Yavannildi “Maidens of Yavanna”

Elements

Word	Gloss
yávë	“fruit”
anna	“gift, (orig.) thing handed, brought or sent to a person, gift, (orig.) thing handed, brought or sent to a person, *present”

Variations

• Yávanna ✧ PE17/093

Yavannildi

followers of yavanna

Yavannildi pl. noun "Followers of Yavanna" (sg. #Yavannildë?), Elvish women who knew and kept the secret of the making of coimas (lembas) (PM:404). Apparently Yavanna + hildi.

Valatári

vala-queen

Valatári noun "Vala-queen" (BAL; this entry of the Etymologies states that Vala has no feminine form except this compound, but Silm gives Valië as a feminine form). The word Valatári is apparently also the unchanged plural form, so used in this quote: "The Valatári were Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Vana, Vaire, Este, Nessa, Uinen" (BAL; Tolkien later reclassified Uinen as a Maia, not a Valatári/Valië). Notice that the plural form of Valatar would apparently also be *Valatári.

Yavanna

Giver of Fruits

Yavanna means "Giver of Fruits" in Quenya. The name is a compound of yáve and anna. Her epithet Kementári means "Queen of the Earth". She is also called Palúrien.

Yavanna

Yavanna

Yavanna means "Giver of Fruits" in Quenya. The name is a compound of yáve and anna. Her epithet Kementári means "Queen of the Earth". Her Sindarin name appears to be Ivon, only attested in the compound Ivonwin ("Maidens of Yavanna").[note 1] Another form is Ivann, also seen in the Sindarin month-name Ivanneth (Quenya: Yavannië).

ivann

feminine name. Fruit-giver

Sindarin name of Yavanna.

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).

Derivations

• ᴹ√YAB “fruit”

Element in

• S. Ivanneth “September, *Yavanna-ness”
• S. Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna”

Ivon

yavanna

#Ivon (isolated from Ivonwin), also Ivann.

ivon

yavanna

(isolated from Ivonwin), also Ivann.

ivonwen

maiden of yavanna

pl. Ivonwin

ivann

feminine name. Fruit-giver

Cognates

• Q. Yavanna “Giver of Fruits, (lit.) Fruit-gift” ✧ PMI/Yavanna
• ᴹQ. Yavanna “Fruit-giver” ✧ Ety/YAB

Element in

• N. Ar Ifan “Day of Yavanna” ✧ EtyAC/LEP (Ar Ifan*)
• N. Ifonneth “September, *Yavanna-ness”

Variations

• Ifan ✧ EtyAC/LEP (Ifan)