amba

more

amba 2) adj. and noun "more", "used of any kind of measurement spatial, temporal, or quantitative" (PE:17:91). Cf. adverb ambë.

amba

more

Derivations

• ✶am- “intensive prefix” ✧ PE17/090
  • √AMA “addition, increase, plus”
• ✶amba “more” ✧ PE17/091
  • √AMA “addition, increase, plus” ✧ PE17/091

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶amba > amba	[amba]	✧ PE17/091

Variations

• amba ✧ PE17/090; PE17/091

amba

up, upwards

amba 1) adv. "up, upwards" (AM2, PE17:157). Apparently also ama (UNU).

amba

adverb. up

amba

adverb. up(wards)

Cognates

• S. am “up, up, [G.] upwards, towards head of, above”

Derivations

• √AMA “addition, increase, plus” ✧ PE17/091
• √AM “go up, go up, [ᴹ√] up” ✧ PE17/157

Element in

• ᴺQ. ambahep- “to maintain, (lit.) upkeep”
• ᴺQ. ambalasar “stalagmite, (lit.) up-growing stone”
• Q. ambalotsë “uprising-flower”
• Q. Ambaráto “*High Champion”
• Q. Ambaróna “Eastern (Land)” ✧ PE17/082; PE17/091; RC/385
• Q. ambarónë “dawn, dawn; [ᴹQ.] uprising, sunrise, Orient”
• Q. Ambarto “*High and Lofty” ✧ PM/354
• Q. Ambarussa “Top-russet” ✧ PM/354

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√AMA > amba	[amba]	✧ PE17/091
√AM > amba-	[amba]	✧ PE17/157

Variations

• amba- ✧ PE17/082; PE17/157
• amba ✧ PE17/091; PM/354; RC/385; UT/255

ama

up

ama adv.? element not glossed, evidently meaning "up" like the prefix am-, or an alternative form of amba (UNU)

ambë

more

ambë adv. "more", "used of any kind of measurement spatial, temporal, or quantitative" (PE17:91). As noun or adjective, amba.

ambë

adverb. more

Cognates

• ᴺS. am “more”

Derivations

• ✶amba “more” ✧ PE17/091
  • √AMA “addition, increase, plus” ✧ PE17/091

Element in

• Q. ambela “further still beyond, far away beyond” ✧ PE17/091
• Q. am(be)na “nearer to” ✧ PE17/091

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶amba > ambe	[ambe]	✧ PE17/091

Variations

• ambe ✧ PE17/091

am-

up

am- (1) prefix "up" (AM2)

am-

prefix. up, up, [ᴱQ.] upwards

Derivations

• √AM “go up, go up, [ᴹ√] up”

Element in

• ᴺQ. amacarastië “upbuilding”
• Q. Amanar “Yule”
• ᴺQ. amaquat- “to fulfill, (lit.) up fill”
• Q. amaurë “dawn, early day, morning” ✧ MC/223
• ᴺQ. amavil- “to fly up, soar”
• Q. amorta- “to heave”

amu

up, upwards

amu adv. "up, upwards" (LT2:335; in Tolkien's later Quenya amba)

lil

more

lil adverbial particle "more" (PE14:80)