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

yāba

noun. fruit

Derivations

• ᴹ√YAB “fruit”

Element in

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