Eldamo : Middle Quenya : enya²

ᴹQ. enya² adv. “at some distant time, that far away” (Category: After)

⚠️ᴹQ. enya², adv. “at some distant time, that far away” (Category: After): ᴹQ. enta “that yonder, ⚠️then (fut.), next; [ᴱQ.] that there (emphatic)”

A word used to refer either to a very remote place or a very remote time in the future, appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 as a combination of ᴹQ. en and ya (PE23/97-98). In drafts it was used to refer to the very remote past (PE23/109 note #108; PE23/110 note #121).

References ✧ PE23/97-98, 109-112

Glosses

“(at that time) long ago” ✧ PE23/109 (enya)
“[of things and persons] similarly [to ya] of those far away” ✧ PE23/98
“points to a still more remote place” ✧ PE23/97
“refers to a remoter future, at some future time (or other)” ✧ PE23/97
“then (long ago)” ✧ PE23/110 (enya)
“then, at some distant time” ✧ PE23/109 (enyá)

Variations

enya ✧ PE23/97; PE23/97; PE23/98; PE23/110 (enya); PE23/109 (enya)
enyá ✧ PE23/109
enyan ✧ PE23/110

Changes

enya “(at that time) long ago” >> enyá “then, at some distant time” ✧ PE23/109
enyan >> enya “then (long ago)” ✧ PE23/110

Inflections

enyallo	ablative	“*from there (more remote)”	✧ PE23/112
enyanna	allative	“*to there (more remote)”	✧ PE23/112
enyasse	locative	“far away over there (out of sight)”	✧ PE23/97
enyasse	locative	“*there (more remote)”	✧ PE23/111

Elements

en	“there, yonder, far away; look yon(der); that; in that (future) case”	✧ PE23/97; PE23/97
ya	“remote demonstrative”	✧ PE23/97; PE23/97

Element In

ᴹQ. enyallume “at that distant date”
ᴹQ. enyan(an) “then, at some distant time” ✧ PE23/109
ᴹQ. enyanome “*that (remote) place”
ᴹQ. enyar “*on some distant future day” ✧ PE23/109
ᴹQ. enyáre “in that day”
ᴹQ. enyasse “there far away, far away over there (out of sight)” ✧ PE23/97; PE23/111
ᴹQ. enyallo “*from there (more remote)” ✧ PE23/112
ᴹQ. enyanna “*to there (more remote)” ✧ PE23/112