yavanna

feminine name. Giver of Fruits, (lit.) Fruit-gift

Valië of the earth, spouse of Aulë, whose name was translated “Giver of Fruits” (S/27). This name is a compound of yávë “fruit” and the noun anna “gift” (SA/yávë, anna), so literally meant “fruit-gift” (PE17/93).

Conceptual Development: This name dates back to the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/66), and ᴱQ. Yavanna appeared in the Qenya Lexicon as a derivative of the root ᴱ√ẎAVA along with other words having to do with “fruit” (LTA1/Yavanna, QL/105). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, ᴹQ. Yavanna appeared with the etymology given above (Ety/ANA¹, YAB). This etymology appeared in later writings as well (PE17/93).

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)

yavannamírë

noun. Jewel of Yavanna

A species of tree in Númenor with globed and scarlet fruits (UT/167; NM/333), translated by Christopher Tolkien as “Jewel of Yavanna” (UTI/Yavannamírë). This name is a compound of Yavanna and the noun mírë “jewel”.

yavannamírë

yavanna-jewel

yavannamírë noun "Yavanna-jewel", name of a tree with globed and scarlet fruits (UT:167)

yavannië

noun. September, *Yavanna-ness

Yavannië

september

Yavannië noun, name of the ninth month of the year, "September" (Appendix D, SA:yávë)

yavannildi

collective name. Maidens of Yavanna

Elvish women who were devotees of Yavanna and learned the secret of crafting lembas (PM/404). The initial element of this name is Yavanna and the second element may be a feminized form of the suffix -(n)dil “friend”, as in [ᴹQ.] nilde “female friend”, or perhaps the plural of the feminine agental suffix -ldë.

Yavannildi

followers of yavanna

Yavannildi pl. noun "Followers of Yavanna" (sg. #Yavannildë?), Elvish women who knew and kept the secret of the making of coimas (lembas) (PM:404). Apparently Yavanna + hildi.

Valatári

vala-queen

Valatári noun "Vala-queen" (BAL; this entry of the Etymologies states that Vala has no feminine form except this compound, but Silm gives Valië as a feminine form). The word Valatári is apparently also the unchanged plural form, so used in this quote: "The Valatári were Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Vana, Vaire, Este, Nessa, Uinen" (BAL; Tolkien later reclassified Uinen as a Maia, not a Valatári/Valië). Notice that the plural form of Valatar would apparently also be *Valatári.

ivonwin

collective name. Maidens of Yavanna

Sindarin term for Elf-women in service to Yavanna (PM/404), a combination of her Sindarin name Ivann and the lenited plural form of gwend “maiden”.

ivanneth

noun. September, *Yavanna-ness

ivann

feminine name. Fruit-giver

Sindarin name of Yavanna.

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, this name appeared as G. Ivon or Ifon (GL/18), and appeared as Ifan in the very early Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/12). It appeared as N. Ivann in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/YAB). It is not directly attested in Tolkien’s later writings, but appears as an element in the names Ivanneth “September, ✱Yavanna-ness” (LotR/1110) and Ivonwin “Maidens of Yavanna” (PM/404).

ifonneth

noun. September, *Yavanna-ness

ar ifan

proper name. *Day of Yavanna

ivann

feminine name. Fruit-giver