Q. au¹ adv. “away, off, not here (of position)” (Category: From, Away)
An adverb meaning “away” derived from √AWA in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) written in 1959 (PE17/144, 148). In one of these notes it was glossed “off, away, not here, of pos[ition]” and contrast with öa meaning “away of movement” (PE17/144). In another place in the same document, adverbial au was contrasted with prepositional o (PE17/148).
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. au “away from” appeared all the way back in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√AVA “go away, depart, leave”, but there Tolkien marked it with a “?” and said it was especially used as a prefix as opposed to adverbial ᴱQ. vá (QL/33). In Tolkien’s later writings, va is usually prefixal or prepositional.
Neo-Quenya: See öa for my recommendations for Neo-Quenya usage.
References ✧ PE17/144, 148
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| √AWA/WĀ > au | [au-] | ✧ PE17/144 |
| √AWA/WĀ > au | [au-] | ✧ PE17/148 |