Eldamo : Middle Quenya : oire

ᴹQ. oire n. “everlasting (?age)” (Category: Eternity)

ᴹQ. oirë, n. “everlasting age, *forever” (Category: Eternity): ᴹQ. ialë “everlasting age”

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “everlasting (age?)” as a variant of ᴹQ. oiale under the root ᴹ√OY¹ “ever, eternal” (Ety/OY). It replaced ᴹQ. aire and íre³ under the (rejected) roots ᴹ√EY and ᴹ√GEY (Ety/EY, GEY).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would assume oire is the noun form of “*forever”, whereas oiale is adverbial “forever”.

Reference ✧ Ety/OY ✧ “everlasting (?age)”

Cognates

N. uir “eternity” ✧ Ety/OY

Derivations

< ᴹ√OY¹ “ever, eternal” ✧ Ety/OY

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√OY > oire

[oire]

✧ Ety/OY

ᴹQ. íre³ n. “eternal, eternity?” (Category: Eternity)

See ᴹQ. oire for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/EY, GEY; EtyAC/EY

Glosses

“eternal, eternity?” ✧ Ety/GEY (íre)
“eternity” ✧ Ety/EY (aire)

Variations

íre ✧ Ety/GEY
aire ✧ Ety/EY
īre ✧ EtyAC/EY

Changes

aire “eternity” >> īre ✧ Ety/EY

Cognates

N. uir “eternity” ✧ Ety/EY (uir)

Derivations

< ᴹ√GEY “ever, everlasting” ✧ Ety/EY (EY); Ety/GEY (GEY)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√EY > aire	[eire] > [aire]	✧ Ety/EY
ᴹ√GEY > íre	[geire] > [ɣeire] > [ɣīre] > [īre]	✧ Ety/GEY