yat

noun. neck, neck; [ᴱQ.] isthmus

Cognates

• N. iaeth “neck” ✧ Ety/YAK

Derivations

• ᴹ✶yakta- “neck” ✧ Ety/YAK
  • ᴹ√YAK “*neck” ✧ Ety/YAK

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶yakta- > yat	[jakta] > [jakt] > [jaxt] > [jat]	✧ Ety/YAK

Variations

• yat ✧ Ety/YAK

yat

noun. goat

The word ᴹQ. yat (yak-) “goat” appeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/24).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s and Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, ᴱQ. yakko was “ox” (QL/105; PE16/132). In Common Eldarin: Noun Structure of the early 1950s, Tolkien gave the possibly-related primitive form ✶najak- for “goat”, with masculine and feminine variants ✶najakō “he-goat” and ✶naikē “she-goat” (PE21/82).

Neo-Quenya: Helge Fauskanger used ᴺQ. naico for (male?) “goat” in his NQNT (NQNT) as a derivative of ✶najakō, and I would recommend this over ᴹQ. yat for this purpose. However, I’d recommend ᴺQ. nyéni for a female goat (adapted from ᴱQ. nyéni) since it (a) is more distinctive than ✱naice and (b) does not conflict with ᴹQ. naike “sharp pain”; Helge Fauskanger used nyéni in NQNT as well.

Variations

• yat ✧ PE21/19

va

preposition. away

Cognates

• N. gwa- “*away”

Derivations

• Q. va “(away) from, (away) from, [ᴹQ.] away, [ᴱQ.] gone forth; with”
  • √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” ✧ VT49/24

Element in

• ᴹQ. vahai(y)a “far away” ✧ SD/247