yén noun, Elvish "long year" of 144 solar years, 52,596 days (Nam, Appendix D, E; RGEO:66. Tolkien earlier defined yén_ as 100 solar years; see PM:126. In the Etymologies, stem YEN, it seems to mean simply "year", but in the LotR Appendices the word for "year" instead appears as _loa or coranar, q.v.) Yénonótië "reckoning of years" (MR:51). Pl. yéni in Nam and Etym, entry YEN though the plural form is misread as "yen-" in the printed version of the Etymologies, cf. VT46:23. Yéni pa yéni "years upon years" (VT44:36). Pl. genitive yénion in yénion yéni "ages of ages" (VT44:36)
Quenya
coranar
sun-round
coranar
noun. (solar) year, (lit.) sun-round
Cognates
- ᴺS. coranor “solar year, (lit.) sun-round”
Elements
Word Gloss KOR “round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll” Anar “Sun”
yén
long year
loa
growth
loa, noun literally "growth", used of a solar year (= coranar) when seasonal changes are considered (Appendix D; in PM:126 loa is translated "time of growth". Pl. loar, or "löar", in MR:426) The form loa is also mentioned as the hypothetical Quenya cognate of Sindarin lô ("swampy"), but precisely because it clashed with loa "year", this Quenya cognate was not in use (VT42:10)
olmië
noun. growth
Derivations
- √OL “grow, [ᴹ√] grow [into]; become”
olasta
noun. growth
Elements
Word Gloss ola- “to grow [up], to grow, grow up, reach its prime, become” -sta “verbal noun suffix”
coranar noun "sun-round", solar year (Appendix D; pl. coranári in PM:126)