A correlative appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/109), a combination of ᴹQ. enya “that far away” and ᴹQ. -n(an) “time”.
Qenya
enya
adjective. middle, *central, middle
enya
adverb. at some distant time, that far away
enyan(an)
adverb. then, at some distant time
ente
pronoun. [unglossed]
An adjective for “middle” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶endya under the root ᴹ√ÉNED “centre” (Ety/ÉNED).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would instead use this word for “✱central” similar to the gloss of later entya. For “middle” I would use the later adjective Q. endëa.