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<Y> YARD ranga (pl rangar is attested). The basic meaning of ranga was "full pace". This Numenorean linar measure was "slightly longer than our yard, approximately 38 inches [= 96.5 cm]". -UT:285, 461 YAWN yanga-, #hac- (only attested as participle: hacala "yawning") -YAG, MC:222 YEAR loa (lit. "growth"), coranar (lit. "sun-round", used when the year was considered more or less astronomically - but loa is stated to be the more usual word for "year"). "LONG-YEAR" yen (pl. yeni is attested in Nam, obsoleting Etym yeni). A "long-year" is a period of 144 solar years, an Elvish "century" - the Eldar used duodecimal counting, in which 144 is the first three-digit number, like our 100. But sometimes it seems that yen simply means "year". Cf the following words: LAST YEAR yenya, HAVING MANY YEARS linyenwa (old), *RECKONING OF YEARS Yenonotie -LotR:1141, YEN, MR:51 YELLOW malina, tulca (the latter was adopted from Valarin and used in Vanyarin Quenya only),YELLOW POWDER malo (pollen), "YELLOW HAMMER" (yellow bird) ammale, ambale, YELLOW WATER-LILY nenu -SMAL, WJ:399, LT1:248 YOKE yanta (bridge), yalte -YAT, GL:37 YONDER (adj) enta; YONDER (interjection?) en (there, look!) -EN YOU (pl. only; for sg "you", see THOU) The ending -lye may cover pl. as well as sg. "you". The reduced form -l may be used on an imperative: hecal! "you be gone!" [WJ:364] and probably also as object: *Utuvienyel, "I (-nye) have found you (-l)". Perhaps -l can be used for plural "you" in subject postition as well, e.g. lendel, "you went". The independent (emphatic) word for "you, even you" as subject may be *elye, while object "you" seems to be le (probably also used as a polite or formal sg: "thee"). YOUR -lya (possessive suffix, e.g. *aldalya "your tree" - assuming that -lye is indeed pl. as well as sg.) YOUNG nessa, vinya, cana; YOUTH nese (?), nesse, laito/laisi (vigour, new life); YOUTHFUL nessima -NETH, LR:25, GL:37, LT1:267
