Eldamo : Quenya : tá

Q. tá adv. “then” (Category: That)

Q. tá, adv. “then, [ᴹQ.] at that time [past]” (Category: That): ᴱQ. encen “then”; ᴱQ. entan “then”; ᴱQ. tyen “then”

A word for “then” appearing in a list of demonstratives from 1968, a vowel-lengthened form of ta “that” (VT49/11). It reappeared in some notes from 1969 alongside a variant tai (VT49/33). ᴹQ. tá “then, at that time (past now)” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948, where Tolkien indicated it was specifically used to refer to the past (PE23/109), as opposed to ᴹQ. en “then” referring to the future.

References ✧ VT49/11, 33

Glosses

“then” ✧ VT49/11 (tā); VT49/33 (tā)

Variations

tā ✧ VT49/11; VT49/33
tai ✧ VT49/33

tá “then” vs. en “then soon”

Elements

ta¹	“that, there”

Element In

Q. tenta “still, yet [past]”

ᴹQ. tá adv. “then, at that time (past now)” (Category: That)

See Q. tá for discussion.

References ✧ PE23/109-110

Glosses

“then, at that time” ✧ PE23/110 (tá); PE23/110 (tá)
“then, at that time (past now)” ✧ PE23/109

Elements

ta¹	“that, it”