né

adverb. ago

ye-

verb. to be

anda né

long ago

i·nér né raiqa ar sí aphastat

the man was angry but now is in good humor (lit. it pleases him)

me·mittanelme i·mbarenna yo sasse né túro

we got into the house and there was Túro

ná-

verb. to be

uman né

some time ago

yanan né

in those days of yore

yanar(yas)

adverb. in those days of yore

A correlative appearing as yanar or yanaryas in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/109), a combination of ᴹQ. ya “yonder” and ᴹQ. -ar(yas) “day”. In Tolkien’s later writings, ya was a relative pronoun and not a demonstrative.

á e·ndanne anda né

Oh! he went back long ago