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Middle Primitive Elvish

yenrinde

noun. year

Derivatives

  • N. idhrin “year, *(lit.) year-circle” ✧ Ety/YEN

Variations

  • ı̯en-rinde ✧ Ety/YEN
  • ien-rinde ✧ EtyAC/YEN
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/YEN; EtyAC/YEN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

yen

root. year

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “year” with derivatives like ᴹQ. yén/N. în “year” (Ety/YEN). Tolkien’s ongoing use of words like Q. yén and S. ínias “annals” indicate its ongoing validity (LotR/377; MR/200), but in Quenya at least the meaning shifted to that of an “Elvish long year”, equal to 144 solar years (LotR/1107; MR/471; NM/84).

Derivatives

  • Q. yén “Elvish long year (144 solar years)”
  • ᴹQ. yén “year” ✧ Ety/YEN
  • N. ennin “Valian year” ✧ Ety/YEN
  • N. idhrin “year, *(lit.) year-circle” ✧ Ety/RIN
  • S. în “year”
  • N. în “year” ✧ Ety/YEN

Element in

  • ᴹ✶atyēnar “anniversary day” ✧ Ety/YEN
  • ᴹ✶yenpanta “aged, long-lived” ✧ Ety/YEN
  • ᴹ✶yenrinde “year” ✧ Ety/YEN
  • ᴹQ. yenya “last year” ✧ Ety/YA
  • N. ingem “old (in mortal sense), suffering from old age, decrepit, (lit.) year-sick” ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ
  • N. ifant “aged, having lived long, (lit.) year-full” ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ

Variations

  • YEN ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ; Ety/GENG-WĀ; Ety/LEP; Ety/RIN; Ety/YA; Ety/YEN
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/GENG-WĀ; Ety/LEP; Ety/RIN; Ety/YA; Ety/YEN] Group: Eldamo. Published by