Quenya 

yáva

yáva

yáva, yava see yávë

yáva

noun. *fruit

yava

adjective. whose, of which

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yeva

adjective. whose

A neologism proposed by Chaered in 2024-12-30 on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), a relative pronoun that is the possessive form of ye “who”, a personal counterpart to [ᴺQ.] yava.

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mava

adverb. whose

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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).

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yávë

fruit

yávë noun "fruit" (YAB), cf. Yavanna. Early "Qenya" has yáva (LT1:273); the form yava turns up even in later material (VT43:31)

Yávien

fruit

Yávien fem. name, apparently yávë "fruit" + the feminine ending -ien.

manwa

adjective. whose

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Adûnaic

kan-

verb. to hold

A verb translated “hold”, given by Tolkien as an example of a biconsonantal-verb (SD/439). There is unfortunately no information on how it might be conjugated.

Sindarin 

iâf

noun. fruit

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Early Primitive Elvish

ẏava

root. *fruit

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Early Quenya

yáva

noun. fruit, produce

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yava-

verb. to bear fruit

A verb appearing in the form ᴱQ. yavin “bears fruit” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ẎAVA having to do with fruit (QL/105).

Neo-Quenya: Since ᴹ√YAB “fruit” survived in Tolkien’s later writings, I think ᴺQ. yav- “to bear (fruit), ✱yield, bring forth, produce” can be retained for purposes of Neo-Quenya.

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yava-

verb. to hold

A verb for “hold” in Early Quenya word lists of the 1920s (PE16/133). It is of unclear derivation, but possibly related to ᴱQ. yavin “bears fruit” as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson.

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Middle Primitive Elvish

yāba

noun. fruit

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yab

root. fruit

The first appearance of this root was as unglossed ᴱ√Ẏ̯AVA in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with a Gnomish form gav- and derivatives like ᴱQ. yausta “crop” and ᴱQ. yáva “fruit, produce” (QL/105). The Gnomish form appeared as the verb G. gav- “produce, yield, bear fruit” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon along with other derivatives like G. gaust “corn, crop (espec. of cereal)” and G. gôf “fruit” (GL/38). In the Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien specified the primitive form as √ı̯aƀa and said “note not gı̯aƀ, for cp. Ivon < ı̯ǝƀánna, Q Yavanna” (GL/38).

The root appeared as ᴹ√YAB “fruit” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. yáve “fruit” and N. iau “corn” (Ety/YAB). Tolkien’s continued use of Q. yávë for “fruit” (VT43/31) and the names Q. Yavanna/S. Ivann “Fruit-giver” (S/27; LotR/1110) indicate the ongoing validity of this root.

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Qenya 

yáve

noun. fruit