ᴹQ. vanya adj. “beautiful, fair” (Category: Beautiful)

References ✧ Ety/BAN; LR/72

Glosses

• “beautiful” ✧ Ety/BAN
• “fair” ✧ LR/72

Element In

• ᴹQ. Ilu vanya, fanya, eari, i-mar, ar ilqa ímen “the World is fair, the sky, the seas, the earth, and all that is in them” ✧ LR/72

Cognates

• N. bein “fair, beautiful” ✧ Ety/BAN

Derivations

• < ᴹ✶bányā “beautiful” ✧ Ety/BAN
  • < ᴹ√BAN “*beauty” ✧ Ety/BAN

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶bányā > vanya

[banjā] > [βanjā] > [βanja] > [vanja]

✧ Ety/BAN

ᴱQ. vanya adj. “good (not evil), holy” (Category: Holy, Sacred)

References ✧ PE14/81; PE15/73-74

Glosses

• “good (not evil)” ✧ PE14/81
• “good, holy, not evil” ✧ PE15/73
• “holy” ✧ PE15/74

Variations

• vanya ✧ PE14/81; PE15/73; PE15/74

Inflections

valda	augmentative	✧ PE14/81; PE15/73
vanyalda	augmentative	✧ PE15/73
vanyalla	augmentative	✧ PE14/81