Eldamo : Early Quenya : diéra

ᴱQ. diéra adj. “yesterday’s; (mostly in sense) bygone, over, passed” (Category: Yesterday)

⚠️ᴱQ. diéra, adj. “yesterday’s; (mostly in sense) bygone, over, passed” (Category: Yesterday): Q. nöa “yesterday; former, *previous; ⚠️tomorrow”; Q. vanwa “gone, lost, departed, vanished, past, over, no longer to be had, passed away, dead, [ᴹQ.] gone for good; ⚠️[ᴱQ.] on the road”

An adjective for “yesterday’s” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s based on the noun ᴱQ. die “yesterday”, along a variant ᴱQ. ’yenda or ’yendina based on longer noun ᴱQ. ’yenye(n) “yesterday” (QL/105). The short form diéra is mostly used in the sense “bygone, over, passed”.

Reference ✧ QL/105 ✧ “yesterday’s; (mostly in sense) bygone, over, passed”

Elements

die	“yesterday”	✧ QL/105
#-ra	“adjectival suffix”	✧ QL/105 (#-ra)

Element In

ᴱQ. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105 (’yendiéra)

ᴱQ. yenda adj. “yesterday’s” (Category: Yesterday)

See ᴱQ. diéra for discussion.

References ✧ QL/105

Glosses

“yesterday’s” ✧ QL/105 (’yenda)

Variations

’yenda ✧ QL/105
’yendina ✧ QL/105

Element In

ᴱQ. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105

Derivations

< ᴱ√DYĒ² “behind, back (before of time)” ✧ QL/105

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√DYĒ > ’yenda

[dʲendā] > [dʲenda] > [jenda]

✧ QL/105