oi adv. "ever" (OY)
Quenya
oio
endless period
oi
ever
oi
adverb. ever, everlastingly
oi(o)
noun/adverb. ever, everlastingly; an endless period, ever, everlastingly; an endless period, *aeon
Cognates
- S. ui “ever”
Derivations
- √OY “ever, continual, unceasing” ✧ PE17/069
Element in
- ᴺQ. úoio “never”
- Q. Coron Oiolairë “Mound Ever-summer”
- Q. oialë “forever; everlastingly, eternally, in eternity, forever; everlastingly, eternally, in eternity; [ᴹQ.] everlasting age” ✧ RGEO/61
- Q. Oiencarmë “Perpetual Production”
- Q. oiolairë “ever-summer (a species of tree)”
- Q. Oiolossë “Ever (Snow) White” ✧ PE17/069; RGEO/61; SA/los
- Q. Oiomúrë
- Q. tennoio “forever, forever[more]” ✧ UT/317
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √OY > oi- [oj-] > [oi-] ✧ PE17/069 Variations
- oi- ✧ PE17/069
- oi ✧ RGEO/61
- oio ✧ RGEO/61; SA/los; UT/317
voro
ever, continually
voro, voro- adv. "ever, continually" (BOR, Narqelion) Compare vor. (Focusing on the gloss "continually", post-Tolkien writers have sometimes used voro for "still, yet", but for this sense the term en is available.) The variants vora, vorë were used for "always" in drafts for a Quenya version of the Sub Tuum Praesidium, but Tolkien eventually replaced such forms with the unrelated word illumë (VT44:9). Compare vórë, vórëa.
ia
ever
[ia adv. "ever" (GEY, EY); replaced by oia.]
vor
ever
vor, voro adv. "ever" (BOR, LT1:250, 273 [only voro_ in the Etymologies]; also in Narqelion)_
wilin
bird
wilin noun "bird" (LT1:273; if this "Qenya" word is to be used in LotR-style Quenya, it must not be confused with the 1st pers. aorist of the verb wil-.)
mennai
until
mennai prep. "until" (VT14:5; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather tenna)
tenna
until, up to, as far as
tenna prep. "until, up to, as far as" (CO), "unto" (VT44:35-36), "to the point", "right up to a point" (of time/place), "until", "to the object, up to, to (reach), as far as" (VT49:22, 23, 24, PE17:187), elided tenn' in the phrase tenn' Ambar-metta "unto the ending of the world" in EO, because the next word begins in a similar vowel; cf. tennoio "for ever" (tenna + oio, q.v.) The unelided form appears in PE17:105: Tenna Ambar-metta.
úlumë
ever
úlumë adv. "ever", at all times (in a series or period) (PE17:156). Cf. ullumë.
oio noun "an endless period" (CO) or adv. "ever" (SA:los). Oiolairë "Ever-summer" (name of a tree, UT:167; also in the name Coron Oiolairë, "Mound of Ever-summer". Oiolossë "Everwhite, Ever-snowwhite", a name of Taniquetil (OY), hence the translation "Mount Everwhite" in Tolkien's rendering of Namárië. See also SA:los. Explicit "mount" in Oron Oiolossë "Mount Everwhite" (WJ:403). Ablativic genitive Oiolossëo "from Mount Everwhite" in Namárië (Nam, RGEO:67, OY)