ᴹQ. forya adj. “right [hand], dexter” (Category: Right (vs. Left))
An adjective for “right (dexter)” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√PHOR “right-hand” (Ety/PHOR). This word also appeared in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1940s, where Tolkien said that it was the right that had “sinister” associations in Quenya rather than the left (PE22/51), no doubt because north was considered the right-hand direction and this was where Melkor resided as discussed years later in the notes associated with the Ambidexters Sentence from 1969 (VT49/6-8).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had an untranslated word ᴱQ. pōya under the early root ᴱ√PO that basis for “north” words in the 1910s (QL/74).
References ✧ Ety/PHOR; EtyAC/PHOR; PE22/51
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| for- | prefix | “right-hand” | ✧ PE22/51 |
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| ᴹ√PHOR > forya | [pʰorja] > [ɸorja] > [forja] | ✧ Ety/PHOR |