Eldamo : Quenya : ava¹

Q. #ava¹ adv. and adj. “*outer” (Category: Out, Outside)

Q. #ava¹, adv. and adj. “[ᴹQ.] outside, beyond; outer, exterior” (Category: Out, Outside): ᴱQ. erúmëa “outer, outermost”

A word that is an element in Avallónë “Outer Isle” (S/260). ᴹQ. ava was glossed “outside, beyond” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under from the root ᴹ√AWA “away, forth; out” (Ety/AWA), and it was glossed “outer, exterior” in notes on the Ambarkanta from the early 1930s (SM/241). Give its root, it likely means “outer” in the sense “further away”.

Reference ✧ S/260 ✧ #ava

Element In

Q. Avallónë “Outer Isle” ✧ S/260

Derivations

< √WĀ/AWA “away (from); go (away), depart, pass away, move (from speaker); before (of time), ago”

ᴹQ. ava adv. and adj. “outside, beyond; outer, exterior” (Category: Out, Outside)

See Q. #ava¹ for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/AWA; EtyAC/AWA; SM/241

Glosses

“outer, exterior” ✧ SM/241
“outside, beyond” ✧ Ety/AWA

Changes

ava “outside” »» ava “outside, beyond” ✧ EtyAC/AWA

Element In

ᴹQ. avahaira “*far beyond, very remote”
ᴹQ. Avakúma “Exterior Void” ✧ Ety/AWA; SM/241
ᴹQ. Avalóna “Outer Isle” ✧ Ety/AWA

Derivations

< ᴹ√AWA “away, forth; out” ✧ Ety/AWA

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√AWA > ava

[awa] > [ava]

✧ Ety/AWA