Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : DYĒ²

ᴱ√DYĒ² root. “behind, back (before of time)”

⚠️ᴱ√DYĒ² root. “behind, back (before of time)”: ✶nō “behind”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “behind, back (before of time)” and with a number of derivatives related to “yesterday” (QL/105). In later writings the Quenya word for “yesterday” was noa (VT49/34).

References ✧ QL/66, 105

Glosses

“behind, back (before of time)” ✧ QL/105

Variations

dyē ✧ QL/66; QL/105
dyene ✧ QL/66; QL/105
dyeye ✧ QL/66; QL/105

NŌ/NOWO‽/NONO‽ “ahead, in front; after of time, tomorrow” compare dyē ✧ QL/66

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶dyen(d)ye(n) ✧ QL/105
- > ᴱQ. yenye(n) “yesterday” ✧ QL/105
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
> ᴱ✶dyeye ✧ QL/105
- > ᴱQ. die “yesterday” ✧ QL/105
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. diéra “yesterday’s; (mostly in sense) bygone, over, passed” ✧ QL/105
    - ⇒ ᴱQ. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
> ᴱQ. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
> ᴱQ. ie “ago, †long ago”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. ielúme “long ago” ✧ PE15/68
> ᴱQ. yenda “yesterday’s” ✧ QL/105
- ⇒ ᴱQ. dienda “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
> ᴱQ. yendiéra “day before yesterday, (lit.) yesterday’s yesterday” ✧ QL/105
⇒ G. gî(laith) “once, in past”
> G. gîr “yesterday”
- ⇒ G. gîrin “bygone, old, belonging to former days, olden, former, ancient” ✧ GL/38