anya-

verb. to reach, arrive at, go to, to reach, arrive at, go to; *to manage, succeed (at something) + infinitive

A verb for “reach, arrive at, go to” in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969, derived from the root √ANA “to(wards)” (PE22/157, 163).

Conceptual Development: An earlier verb for “arrive” was tenya- “arrive, end (not at speaker’s[?] place)” in notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s (VT49/24; VTE/49). A similar verb reappeared in notes from 1968 as tene “arrive, come to, get to” from a root √TEN, but in that note the ten- forms were rejected and changed to men-. Elsewhere men- was used in the more general sense “go” or “come” (PE17/13, 16; PE22/162), whereas in the 1969 Ambidexters Sentence, the verb tenta- was used to mean “point at” (VT49/6-8).

Luinyelle suggested that a form of anya- “arrive” (or a similar verb) might appear in the sentence [ᴹQ.] Sorni Númevalion anner “The Eagles of the Powers of the West are at hand” from the 1940s, with anner being a strong-past from ancient ✱an-nē, so the literal meaning of the sentence is “the Eagles ... arrived”. I think this is a plausible theory, but given the gap in years between this sentence and the appearance of anya- “arrive”, it is hard to say.

Neo-Quenya: Of the various options, I think anya- is the best Neo-Quenya verb for “arrive”. I further assume it is a half-strong verb with past tense ananye “arrived”; I prefer this as more distinctive than a strong past anne. I would use it both intransitively and transitively (without a preposition), as in ananyen “I arrived” vs. ananyen i osto “I arrived [at] the city = I reached the city”.

In a post on 2024-01-31 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Luinyelle suggested it might be used in the idiomatic sense “manage, succeed (in something)” when combined with the infinitive of another verb: ananyen pare Quenya “I managed to learn Quenya” = “(lit.) I arrived [at] learning Quenya”

anya-

verb. go to, reach,arrive at