Eldamo : Quenya : nöa

Q. nöa adj. and n. “former; yesterday; tomorrow” (Category: Yesterday)

Q. nöa, adj. and n. “yesterday; former, *previous; ⚠️tomorrow” (Category: Yesterday): ᴱQ. dië “yesterday”; ᴱQ. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday”; ᴱQ. diéra “yesterday’s; (mostly in sense) bygone, over, passed”; ᴱQ. yenda “yesterday’s”; ᴱQ. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday”; ᴱQ. yenye(n) “yesterday”

@@@ originally just adjectival “former, previous”, now also used as a noun “yesterday”, shortened from noa ré “previous day”, perhaps by analogy from phrases like ré nó noa “day before last”.

References ✧ VT49/20, 34

Glosses

“former” ✧ VT49/34 (noa)
“tomorrow” ✧ VT49/20 (noa)
“yesterday” ✧ VT49/34 (noa)

Variations

noa ✧ VT49/20; VT49/34; VT49/34

Elements

nó¹	“before (of time); at back (of place)”
#-a	“adjectival suffix”

Element In

Q. ecuva nin carë sa nöa “I ‘may’ do that tomorrow, I have a chance of doing that [tomorrow]” ✧ VT49/20

ᴱQ. nuo n. “tomorrow” (Category: Tomorrow)

References ✧ QL/34, 66-67

Glosses

“tomorrow” ✧ QL/34 (nua(n)); QL/66; QL/66 (nonno)

Variations

nuo ✧ QL/66
nua(n) ✧ QL/34
nuan ✧ QL/34
nonno ✧ QL/66
nono ✧ QL/66
nua ✧ QL/67

enwa “tomorrow” = nua(n) “tomorrow” ✧ QL/34

Changes

nua >> nuo “tomorrow” ✧ QL/67

Element In

ᴱQ. nuan·ekkala “tomorrow morning” ✧ QL/34
ᴱQ. nuan·ettui “tomorrow night” ✧ QL/34
ᴱQ. nuononda “day after tomorrow” ✧ QL/66; QL/67 (nuanwa)
ᴱQ. núora “tomorrow’s, to be; future” ✧ QL/66

Derivations

< ᴱ√NO(WO) “ahead, in front; after of time, tomorrow” ✧ QL/66 (NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽); QL/66 (NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽); QL/66 (NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽ > nuo	[nowō] > [nowo] > [nouo] > [nuo]	✧ QL/66
ᴱ√NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽ > nonno	[nonnō] > [nonno]	✧ QL/66
ᴱ√NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽ > nua	[nowā] > [nowa] > [noua] > [nua]	✧ QL/67