Eldamo : Quenya : vá

Q. vá interj. and adv. “will not, do not, shall not” (Category: Negation)

Q. vá, interj. and adv. “will not, do not, shall not” (Category: Negation)

References ✧ PE17/143-145; PE22/161-162, 166; WJ/371

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

Element In

Q. áva “don’t, negative imperative” ✧ WJ/371
Q. ván caruva “I will not (do not intend) to make” ✧ PE17/144
Q. váquet- “to refuse, forbid, prohibit; (lit.) to say no, to say ‘I will not or do not’” ✧ WJ/371
Q. itas vá tuluvanyë “in that case I won’t come” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá caris i “he is not to do it (now or ever); in any case (whatever may be said, desired, or may occur to the contrary) he is not to do this” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá caruvalwë (ohta) “we will not (make war)” ✧ PE22/161
Q. vá caruvas i “*he is not to do it (in the future)” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá matuvatyë mastanya “you are not to eat my bread, you shan’t eat my bread” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá ménanyë “I am not coming (I say)” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá meninyë ó le “I won’t come with you” ✧ PE22/162
Q. ványë ar válmë “I and those with me are against it” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá tulinye ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá tuluvanyë “I won’t come” ✧ PE22/162
Q. vá tuluvásë “he is not to come, he shan’t come” ✧ PE22/162

Cognates

Derivations

< √BĀ/ABA “refuse, forbid, prohibit, say nay (in refusal or denial)” ✧ PE17/143 (BĀ); PE17/145 (BĀ); PE22/162 (BA); WJ/370 (BA)

Phonetic Developments