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==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
* "'''''Aiya''' [[Eärendil]] [[Elen]]ion [[Ancalima]]!''", "'''Hail''', Eärendil, brightest of stars"<ref name=TT/><ref name=L297/> | * "'''''Aiya''' [[Eärendil]] [[Elen]]ion [[Ancalima]]!''", "'''Hail''', Eärendil, brightest of stars"<ref name=TT/><ref name=L297/> | ||
*"'''''Aiya''' [[Elen|elenion]] '''ancalima'''!''"<ref>{{RK|Tower}}</ref> ("'''Hail''' brightest of the stars!") | |||
==Cognates== | ==Cognates== | ||
*[[Quenya]] ''[[aina]]'' | *[[Quenya]] ''[[aina]]'' | ||
Revision as of 23:02, 6 November 2016
aiya (aiya!) or aia means "hail" in Quenya. In the legendarium, it was only addressed to "great or holy persons", such as the Valar, or to Eärendil.[1][2][3] In J.R.R. Tolkien's Quenya translation of Ave Maria (Aia María), the Latin word ave was first given the translated form aiya, later changed to the form aia.[4]
Etymology
Examples
- "Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!", "Hail, Eärendil, brightest of stars"[2][3]
- "Aiya elenion ancalima!"[5] ("Hail brightest of the stars!")
Cognates
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings: Eldarin Roots and Stems", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 149
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Shelob's Lair"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 297, (dated August 1967)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "'Words of Joy': Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya — Part One" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne, Arden R. Smith, and Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 43, January 2002, p. 28
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Tower of Cirith Ungol"
