anda adj. "long" (ÁNAD/ANDA), "far" (PE17:90).In Andafangar noun "Longbeards", one of the tribes of the Dwarves (= Khuzdul Sigin-tarâg and Sindarin Anfangrim) (PM:320). Compare Andafalassë, #andamacil, andamunda, andanéya, andatehta, Anduinë. Apparently derived from the adj. anda is andavë "long" as adverb ("at great length", PE17:102), suggesting that the ending -vë can be used to derive adverbs from adjectives (LotR3:VI ch. 4, translated in Letters:308)
Quenya
anda
adjective. long, far
anda
long
andavë
long, at great length
andavë adv. "long, at great length" (PE17:102); see anda
andanéya
adverb. long ago, once upon a time
anda né
adverb. long ago
ando
long
ando (2) adv. "long"; maybe replaced by andavë; see anda (VT14:5)
an-
prefix. intensive prefix
sóra
long, trailing
sóra adj. "long, trailing" (LT2:344)
The Quenya adjective for “long”, which had an extensive history in Tolkien’s writings.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. ande or andea “long” under the early root ᴱ√ṆÐṆ “stretch” (QL/31). The contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon had ᴱQ. andra or anda as the equivalent of G. in(d)ra, both derived from ᴱ√ṇdr (GL/51). The Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s just had anda “long” (PE14/45, 77), and Tolkien stuck with that form thereafter.
The English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s gave ᴱQ. anda the gloss “long (of space)” (PE15/74). The Etymologies of the 1930s had ᴹQ. anda “long” as a derivative of the root ᴹ√ÁNAD (Ety/ÁNAD). In notes from the mid-1960s Tolkien said anda meant both “long” and “far” (PE17/90), but everywhere else Tolkien said it only meant “long”.