Quettaparma Quenyallo

yonna adj. (or passive participle) “enclosed”, see yor-. (PE17:43)

yonwa noun “fence, border, boundary” (PE17:43)

yonya noun with pronominal ending "my son" (evidently short for *yondonya; the form yonya may be used as a form of address only) (LR:61)

yonyo noun "son, big boy". In one version, yonyo was also a term used in children's play for "middle finger" or "middle toe", but Tolkien may have dropped this notion, deciding to use hanno "brother" as the alternative play-name (VT47:10, 15, VT48:4)

yor- vb. “enclose, set bounds to/about” (PE17:43). Past tense yórë, †yondë, perfect oiórië (PE17:43). The forms yonda, yonna “enclosed” may be regarded as the passive participle of this verb.

yór noun "blood"; see yár (VT46:22)

yu- or yú- prefix "twi-" or "both" (VT45:13, VT46:23, VT48:20; see yualë, yúcalë, yurasta below). According to PE14:84, yú can function independently as the adverb “twice”.

yualë noun "twilight" (KAL). Also yúcalë. Cf. yúyal.

yúcalë ("k") noun "twilight" (KAL, VT45:13). Also yualë.

yúla noun "ember, smouldering wood" (YUL)

yulda noun "draught, something drunk, a drink, the amount drunk", pl. yuldar (Nam, PE17:63, 68, RGEO:66). See -da regarding etymology.

yulma (1) noun "cup" (Nam, RGEO:67), "drinking-vessel" (WJ:416, PE17:180). The plural form yulmar is attested (VT48:11). Yulmaya (“k”) colloquial Quenya for “his cup” (the formally correct form being *yulmarya) (VT49:17)

yulma (2) noun "brand" (YUL). May have been obsoleted by # 1 above.

yulmë (1) noun "drinking, carousal" (WJ:416)

yulmë (2) noun "red [?heat]" (the gloss was illegible) (YUL)

yulu- vb. "carry" (GL:38; rather #col- in LotR-style Quenya)

yuncë ("k") cardinal "twelve", before it was altered to yunquë under the influence of minquë "eleven" (according to VT48:7, 8). The form yuncë is asterisked by Tolkien. Compare encë under enquë.

yunquë ("q") cardinal "twelve" (VT47:41, VT48:4, 6, 9; VT49:57; also compare the stem yunuk(w)- cited in VT42:24, 31). This word appears already in an early source (PE14:82). Some sources point to #rasta, q.v., as another word for "twelve". However, available post-LotR sources indicate that Tolkien intended yunquë as the regular Quenya word for "twelve".

yunquenta cardinal "thirteen" (12 and one more) (VT47:15), variant yunquentë (VT47:40), compare entë #1.

yunquesta fraction "one twelfth" (1/12) (VT48:11)

yur- vb. "run" (quoted in form yurin, translated "runs", but within Tolkien's later framework it looks like a 1st person aorist "I run") -QL:106 (cf. entry YUR in Etym)

yurasta cardinal "24" (two times #rasta "twelve") (PE14:17)

yúyal noun “twilight” (PE17:169); cf. yualë, yúcalë, q.v.

yúyo noun? adv.? "both" (YŪ, VT48:10). Used adjectivally in yúyo má “both hands”; notice that the noun following yúyo receives no plural or dual marker.


-zya, archaic form of the pronominal ending -rya “his, her, its”, q.v. (VT49:17)