Eldamo : Middle Quenya : etwan

ᴹQ. etwan adv. “the second time” (Category: Again)

⚠️ᴹQ. etwan, adv. “the second time” (Category: Again): ᴹQ. ata “again, *(lit.) a second time”

A word appearing in a marginal note to in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 as {warnan >> enwan “again” >> enwan or atwan “a second time, again” >>} etwan “the second time” (PE23/109), clearly based on etwa “second (of two)” (PE23/107). In context, the -n in etwan is likely a reduced form of the suffix n(an) used in adverbs of time.

References ✧ PE23/109

Glosses

“a second time, again” ✧ PE23/109 (enwan/atwan)
“again” ✧ PE23/109 (enwan)
“the second time” ✧ PE23/109

Variations

etwan ✧ PE23/109
warnan[?] ✧ PE23/109
enwan ✧ PE23/109
enwan/atwan ✧ PE23/109

Changes

warnan[?] >> enwan “again” ✧ PE23/109
enwan “again” >> enwan/atwan “a second time, again” ✧ PE23/109
enwan/atwan “a second time, again” >> etwan “the second time” ✧ PE23/109

Elements

etwa	“the other (of two); second [of two items]; or else”
-n(an)	“time”