yáva

yáva

yáva, yava see yávë

yáva

noun. *fruit

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

• Q. ar aistana i yávë mónalyo Yésus “and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus” ✧ VT43/31; VT43/31; VT43/31
• ᴺQ. relyávë “fig”
• ᴺQ. velyávë “gourd, Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family”
• Q. Yavanna “Giver of Fruits, (lit.) Fruit-gift” ✧ SA/yávë
• ᴺQ. yávelóra “fruitless”
• Q. yávië “autumn, harvest [time or act]” ✧ SA/yávë
• Q. Yávien
• ᴺQ. yávinqua “fruitful”

Variations

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

Yávien

fruit

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

yava

adjective. whose, of which

Elements

Word	Gloss
ya	“which, that (relative pronoun)”

mava

adverb. whose

Elements

Word	Gloss
ma	“interrogative particle”

manwa

adjective. whose

Elements

Word	Gloss
man	“who, who; [ᴹQ.] what”