A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives meaning “gaze” or “look at” (QL/105). In later writings is seems this function was transferred to √TIR.
Early Primitive Elvish
dyē
root. behind, back (before of time)
Derivatives
- ᴱ✶dyen(d)ye(n) ✧ QL/105
- Eq. yenye(n) “yesterday” ✧ QL/105
- ᴱ✶dyeye ✧ QL/105
- Eq. die “yesterday” ✧ QL/105
- Eq. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
- Eq. ie “ago, †long ago”
- Eq. yenda “yesterday’s” ✧ QL/105
- Eq. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
- G. gîr “yesterday”
Element in
- G. gî(laith) “once, in past”
Variations
- dyē ✧ QL/066
- dyene ✧ QL/066; QL/105
- dyeye ✧ QL/066; QL/105
- DYĒ ✧ QL/105
dyē
root. *gaze
Derivatives
(d)ye
root. demonstrative pointing back
dya
root. demonstrative pointing back
ya
root. demonstrative pointing back
Derivatives
- Eq. ya “relative pronoun”
Variations
- YA ✧ QL/105
- DYA ✧ QL/105
- YE ✧ QL/105
- DYE ✧ QL/105
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “behind, back (before of time)” and with a number of derivatives related to “yesterday” (QL/105). In later writings the Quenya word for “yesterday” was noa (VT49/34).