ᴹQ. vahai(y)a adv. “far away” (Category: From, Away)
A word appearing as vahaiya or vahāya “far away” in various versions of the Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s (LR/47; SD/247, 310). In The Etymologies from around 1937 it was (a)vahāya under the root ᴹ√KHAYA “far, distant, remote”, equivalent to N. gwahae (EtyAC/KHAYA). In the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 it appears as vahaia in the phrase vahaia nóre ëa i a-esta Valinor “far away (there) is a land called Valinor” (PE22/124).
References ✧ EtyAC/KHAYA; LR/47; PE22/124; SD/247, 310
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| #va | “away” | ✧ SD/247 (#va) |
| haiya | “far off, far away” | ✧ Ety/KHAYA (hāya); SD/247 |
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