auta

particle. ago

auta

adverb. ago

Derivations

• √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out” ✧ PE22/168

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√awa > auta	[auta]	✧ PE22/168

enge

adverb. ago

ago, once, in the past

olla

over

olla prep "over" (= beyond, of things passed over, as in "I went over a river" or "they went over the hill") (PE17:65)

helma

skin, fell

helma noun "skin, fell" (SKEL), changed by Tolkien from halma (VT46:14)

vanwa

gone, lost, no longer to be had, vanished, departed, dead, past, past and over, gone on the road, over

vanwa adj. "gone, lost, no longer to be had, vanished, departed, dead, past, past and over, gone on the road, over" (WJ:366, Nam, RGEO:67, WAN, LT1:264; older wanwa, PE17:143). The word was "not applied to _dead persons _except those who would not return, either because of a special doom (as [in the case of] Men) or because of a special will of their own (as Felagund or Míriel) or a special ban of Mandos (as Feanor)" (PE17:143). Also see avanwa.

vanwa

adjective. gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, [ᴹQ.] gone for good; [ᴱQ.] on the road

Derivations

• √BA(N) “meet, come up against; go (away), meet, come up against; go, [ᴹ√] proceed” ✧ PE17/016
• ✶wanwa “gone, taken away, lost, departed” ✧ PE17/143; PE22/137
  • √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out” ✧ PE17/143

Element in

• Q. Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva “House of Past (or Departed) Mirth” ✧ PE17/064; PE21/80
• Q. sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar! “now lost, lost to those from the east is Valimar!” ✧ LotR/0377; LotR/0377; RGEO/58; RGEO/58
• Q. sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar! “now lost is, [to one] from the East lost, Valimar!” ✧ RGEO/59; RGEO/59
• ᴺQ. vanwalussë “past tense”
• ᴺQ. vanwë “loss (abstract/general)”

Elements

Word	Gloss
auta-	“to go (away), depart, leave; to disappear, be lost, pass away”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√ABA/BA > vanwa	[banwa] > [βanwa] > [vanwa]	✧ PE17/016
✶wanwa > vanwa	[wanwa] > [vanwa]	✧ PE17/143
✶bā̆nwa > vanwa	[banwa] > [βanwa] > [vanwa]	✧ PE22/137

Variations

• va-nwa ✧ PE17/068
• Vanwa ✧ PE21/80
• vánwa ✧ RGEO/58; RGEO/58

or

over

or prep. "over" (CO); in early "Qenya", this preposition was also defined as "on, upon" (LT1:256, MC:216). Prefixed or- is translated "up" in ortil, q.v.

gwanwen

proper name. Departed

A term the Sindar used for the Elves who left Beleriand for Aman, derived from the same root as Q. vanwa: √WĀ/AWA (WJ/366, 378). Another variation was Gwanwel (WJ/378), perhaps incorporating †Ell “Elf”.

Variations

• Gwanwel ✧ WJ/378; WJI/Gwanwen

gwanwen

adjective. departed, departed, *gone, lost [to time], past

Derivations

• √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago, away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago; [ᴹ√] forth, out”

Element in

• S. Gwanwen “Departed” ✧ WJ/378
• S. Gwenedhel

Variations

• Gwanwen ✧ WJ/378

flâd

noun. skin

flâd

noun. skin

A word for “skin” (or possibly “bark”) appearing only in the name S. Fladrif “Skinbark” (LotR/474).

Element in

• S. Fladrif “Skinbark” ✧ LotR/0474

Variations

• flad ✧ LotR/0474 (flad)

or

over

(adjectival prefix) or- (above, high)

or

over

(above, high)

past

adjective. shaking

Derivations

• ᴺ✶. KWATH “*shake”

Element in

• ᴺS. cevemphast “earth quake”

gwann

departed

(dead), lenited ’wann; pl. gwain

gwanwen

departed

1) (past participle) gwanwen (lenited wanwen; pl. gwenwin), also as noun: a ”departed” one, one of the Elves of Aman: Gwanwen (i **Wanwen), pl. Gwenwin (in Gwenwin) (WJ:378), 2) gwann (dead), lenited wann; pl. gwain**;

gwanwen

departed

(lenited ’wanwen; pl. gwenwin), also as noun: a ”departed” one, one of the Elves of Aman: Gwanwen (i ’Wanwen), pl. Gwenwin (in Gwenwin) (WJ:378)

gwenwi

noun. past, past tense

Cognates

• ᴹQ. vanwie “the past, past time”

Derivations

• ᴹ√WAN “depart, go away, disappear, vanish”

ia

ago

ia, io

ia

ago

io

mân

departed spirit

(i vân, construct man), pl. main (i main)

thar

over

(adverbial prefix) thar- (across, athwart, beyond)

thar

over

(across, athwart, beyond)

bannen

gone

#bannen (pl. bennin). Isolated from govannen ”met”, based on the assumption that this past participle includes a form of the verb #bad- ”go”.

bannen

adjective. gone

Elements

Word	Gloss
bad-	“to tread, travel, to tread, [G.] travel”

bannen

gone

(pl. bennin). Isolated from govannen ”met”, based on the assumption that this past participle includes a form of the verb #bad- ”go”.

orlā

preposition. over

Derivatives

• Q. olla “over [beyond]” ✧ PE17/065

Variations

• or-lā ✧ PE17/065 (or-lā)

gwann

adjective. departed, dead

ia

adverb. ago

io

adverb. ago

io

adverb. ago

Cognates

• ᴹQ. yá “formerly, ago” ✧ Ety/YA

Derivations

• ᴹ√YA “there, over there; (of time) back, ago” ✧ Ety/YA

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√YA > io	[jā] > [jǭ] > [jou] > [jau] > [jo]	✧ Ety/YA