yána

vast, huge; wide

yána (1) adj. "vast, huge; wide" (PE17:99, 115); also yanda, q.v.

yána

holy place, fane, sanctuary

yána (2) noun "holy place, fane, sanctuary" (YAN). Compare ainas in a post-LotR source.

yána

adjective. wide, vast, huge

An adjective glossed “vast, huge” or “wide” derived from the root √YAN and cognate to S. iaun, appearing in various explanations of the Sindarin suffixes -ion and -ian(d) appearing in Sindarin land names (PE17/99, 115).

Conceptual Development: Some variants of the adjective yána appeared in Tolkien’s later writings: Q. yanda as a variant of yána (PE17/115) and Q. yonda “wide, extensive” in a paradigm where the root was √YŎNO rather than √YAN (PE17/43).

The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. ’yanta “large” under the early root ᴱ√DẎṆTṆ (QL/106). The adjective yanta reappeared in the English-Qenya Dictionary of the 1920s with the gloss “great”, but was eventually deleted in that document (PE15/69).