Q. haia adv. “afar” (Category: Far)
The adverb ᴹQ. hāya “far off, far away” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KHAYA “far, distant, remote” (Ety/KHAYA; EtyAC/KHAYA). It reappeared as haiya “far” in a phrase from the Lament of Atalante of the 1940s: haiya vahaiya sín Atalante “far far away now (is) the Downfallen” (SD/247). It appeared again as haia in the first draft of Löa Yucainen from in 1958: Ai loar melle yassen ekkennen haia palantírielya yárie andavanwer “Alas beloved years in which looking afar I saw in the distance the ages long-departed” (CPT/1296). It is likely that háya, haiya, and haia are just variant spellings of the same word; compare Máya, Maiya vs. Maia.
Reference ✧ CPT/1296 ✧ “afar”
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ᴹQ. haiya adv. “far off, far away” (Category: Far)
References ✧ Ety/KHAYA; SD/247
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| ᴹ√KHAYA > hāya | [kʰāja] > [xāja] > [hāja] | ✧ Ety/KHAYA |