Eldamo : Early Quenya : yara

ᴱQ. yara n. “a gloom, blight, lowering darkness” (Category: Darkness)

⚠️ᴱQ. yara, n. “a gloom, blight, lowering darkness” (Category: Darkness): Q. lumbo “cloud, [ᴱQ.] dark lowering cloud; [Q.] gloom, dark, shade”; Q. yára “old, ancient, [ᴹQ.] belonging to or descending from former times”

This word appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ᴱQ. yara “a gloom, blight, lowering darkness” under the early root ᴱ√YAÐA (QL/105). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, an alternate form yaru appeared as a cognate of G. gath “gloom, blight” (GL/37), and in an early name list yáru was the final element in ᴱQ. Fuiyáru “deadly nightshade” (PE15/14).

References ✧ GL/37; PE15/14; QL/105

Glosses

“a gloom, blight, lowering darkness” ✧ QL/105

Variations

yara ✧ QL/105
yaru ✧ GL/37
yáru ✧ PE15/14

Element In

ᴱQ. fuiyáru “deadly nightshade” ✧ PE15/14

Cognates

G. †gath² “gloom, blight” ✧ GL/37 (†gath²)

Derivations

< ᴱ√YAÐA “*gloom” ✧ QL/105

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√YAÐA > yara

[jaðā] > [jaða] > [jaza] > [jara]

✧ QL/105