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Q. andanéya adj. “long ago, once upon a time” (Category: Past, Ago)

Q. andanéya, adj. “long ago, once upon a time” (Category: Past, Ago)
ᴹQ. yan(an) “at that (distant) time, then (long ago)”
ᴹQ. yanar(yas) “in those days of yore”
ᴹQ. yassë “once upon a time; ⚠️there [yonder]”

Words for “long ago, once upon a time” given as anda né or andanéya in notes from 1968, a combination of anda “long” with né “ago” or néya “once, at one time” (VT49/31). It seems likely that anda né is adverbial while andanéya is adjectival: i andanéya aran “the long-ago king, the once-upon-a-time king”. The phrase ᴹQ. anda né “long ago” also appeared in notes on the the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) and Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC), both from 1948 (PE22/96; PE23/109).

Reference ✧ VT49/31 ✧ “long ago, once upon a time”

Elements

anda “long, far” ✧ VT49/31
néya “once, at one time (in the past)” ✧ VT49/31