Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : YAÐA

ᴱ√YAÐA root. “*gloom”

⚠️ᴱ√YAÐA root. “*gloom”: √LUB¹ “shadow, darkness”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with Gnomish form gadh- and derivatives ᴱQ. yanda “dark, gloomy” and ᴱQ. yara “a gloom, blight, lowering darkness” (QL/105). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien gave the primitive form ᴱ✶ı̯ādh (GL/37). This root was the basis for the 1910s names ᴱQ. Aryan/G. Garioth/ᴱIlk. Aryador “Land of Shadow”. In The Etymologies of the 1930s, the last of these became Ilk. Ariador “Land Outside [Doriath]” (Ety/ELED, GAT(H)), before the name was abandoned entirely.

Reference ✧ QL/105

Derivatives

⇒ ᴱIlk. Aryador “Land of Shadow”
> ᴱ✶ı̯ādh
- ⇒ G. Garioth “Land of Shade” ✧ GL/37
- > G. †gath² “gloom, blight” ✧ GL/37
  - ⇒ G. Garioth “Land of Shade”
⇒ ᴱQ. Aryan “Shadow Place”
> ᴱQ. yanda “dark, gloomy” ✧ QL/105
> ᴱQ. yara “a gloom, blight, lowering darkness” ✧ QL/105
- ⇒ ᴱQ. fuiyáru “deadly nightshade” ✧ PE15/14
> G. gand “dark & gloomy; morose; harsh, ill tempered, sour, gloomy of temper”
- ⇒ G. gandos “morose temper” ✧ GL/37