Quenya 

yávë

fruit

yávë noun "fruit" (YAB), cf. Yavanna. Early "Qenya" has yáva (LT1:273); the form yava turns up even in later material (VT43:31)

yávë

noun. fruit

The Quenya word for “fruit”, most notably as an element in the name Yavanna “Giver of Fruits, (lit.) fruit-gift” (S/27; SA/yávë; PE17/93) and derived from the root ᴹ√YAB of similar meaning (Ety/YAB).

Conceptual Development: This word dates back to ᴱQ. yáva “fruit, produce” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ẎAVA, already an element of Yavanna’s name (QL/105). The word reappeared as ᴹQ. yáve “fruit” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√YAB of the same meaning (Ety/YAB). In Quenya Prayers of the 1950s, the word appeared as yáva, yávë and yave (VT43/26-28).

Derivations

  • ᴹ√YAB “fruit”

Element in

Variations

  • yave ✧ VT43/31
  • yáva ✧ VT43/31
  • yáve ✧ VTE/43
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Yávien

fruit

Yávien fem. name, apparently yávë "fruit" + the feminine ending -ien.

yáva

yáva

yáva, yava see yávë

yáva

noun. *fruit

Yavanna

fruit-gift

Yavanna, fem. name: Yav-anna, "Fruit-gift" (PE17:93) or "Fruit-giver", name of a Valië, spouse of Aulë, associated especially with plants (YAB, ANA1; cf. yávë)

Sindarin 

iâf

noun. fruit

Derivations

  • ᴹ√YAB “fruit”
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Qenya 

yáve

noun. fruit

Cognates

  • N. iau “corn, corn, *cereal crop” ✧ Ety/YAB

Derivations

  • ᴹ√YAB “fruit” ✧ Ety/YAB

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Yavanna “Fruit-giver” ✧ Ety/YAB

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√YAB > yáve[jābe] > [jāβe] > [jāve]✧ Ety/YAB

Middle Primitive Elvish

yāba

noun. fruit

Derivations

  • ᴹ√YAB “fruit”

Element in

  • ᴹ✶yābā-sūka “fruit drink, cider” ✧ TMME/053 (yābā-sāb)
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yab

root. fruit

The first appearance of this root was as unglossed ᴱ√Ẏ̯AVA in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with a Gnomish form gav- and derivatives like ᴱQ. yausta “crop” and ᴱQ. yáva “fruit, produce” (QL/105). The Gnomish form appeared as the verb G. gav- “produce, yield, bear fruit” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon along with other derivatives like G. gaust “corn, crop (espec. of cereal)” and G. gôf “fruit” (GL/38). In the Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien specified the primitive form as √ı̯aƀa and said “note not gı̯aƀ, for cp. Ivon < ı̯ǝƀánna, Q Yavanna” (GL/38).

The root appeared as ᴹ√YAB “fruit” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. yáve “fruit” and N. iau “corn” (Ety/YAB). Tolkien’s continued use of Q. yávë for “fruit” (VT43/31) and the names Q. Yavanna/S. Ivann “Fruit-giver” (S/27; LotR/1110) indicate the ongoing validity of this root.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶yāba “fruit”
  • ᴺQ. yausta “crop”
  • ᴺQ. yava- “to bear (fruit), *yield, bring forth, produce”
  • Q. yávë “fruit”
  • ᴹQ. yáve “fruit” ✧ Ety/YAB
  • ᴺS. iâf “fruit”
  • N. iau “corn, corn, *cereal crop” ✧ Ety/YAB
  • ᴺS. iaust “crop, *yield, produce; corn”
  • ᴺS. iav- “to produce, yield, bear fruit”
  • ᴺS. iavren “fertile”
  • S. Ivann “Fruit-giver”

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Yavanna “Fruit-giver” ✧ Ety/ANA¹
  • N. Ivann “Fruit-giver” ✧ Ety/YAB
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Early Primitive Elvish

ẏava

root. *fruit

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶I̯ǝƀánna
  • Eq. yausta “crop” ✧ QL/105
  • Eq. yava- “to bear fruit” ✧ LT1A/Yavanna; QL/105
  • Eq. yáva “fruit, produce” ✧ LT1A/Yavanna; QL/105
  • G. govron “acorn”
  • G. gôf “fruit (esp. of tree)”
  • G. gaust “corn, crop (espec. of cereal)” ✧ GL/38
  • G. gav- “to produce, yield, bear fruit” ✧ GL/38
  • G. ivrin “fertile”
  • G. -iof “-bearing”
  • G. Ivon ✧ LT1A/Yavanna

Variations

  • ı̯aƀa ✧ GL/38
  • YAVA ✧ LT1A/Yavanna
  • Ẏ̯AVA ✧ QL/105
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