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).

yanda

wide

yanda adj. "wide" (PE17:115); variant of yána #1, q.v.

yanda

adjective. wide

ainas

hallow, a fane

ainas noun "a hallow, a fane", perhaps with stem ainass- (PE17:149). Compare yána #2.

Naira

vast, wide, empty

naira (2) adj. "vast, wide, empty" (PE17:27)

airita-

verb. hallow

#airita- vb. "hallow" (only pa.t. airitánë is attested) (VT32:7)

landa

wide

landa (2) adj. "wide" (LAD). Maybe in landatavárë = *"wide-wood"? (TI:415)

landa

adjective. wide, wide, [ᴱQ.] broad

A word for “wide” appearing as an element in the compound landanóre “wide country” in the 1958 poem Löa Yucainen. ᴹQ. landa “wide” also appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√LAD (Ety/LAD).

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. landa “wide, broad” appeared all the way back in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s where it was derived from the early root ᴱ√LAŘA [LAÐA] (QL/51). In this document it also had an augmented form alanda of the same meaning (QL/34, 51), and this augmented alanda appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “wide” (PME/34).

palla

wide, expansive

palla adj. "wide, expansive" (PAL)

yonda

wide, roomy, extensive

yonda adj."wide, roomy, extensive" (PE17:43), also (as alternative form of yonna) glossed "enclosed", with the latter meaning perhaps intended as the passive participle of the verb yor-