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Middle Primitive Elvish

tal

root. foot

Derivatives

  • Ilk. tal “foot” ✧ Ety/TAL
  • ᴹ✶tāl “foot” ✧ PE21/56
  • ᴹ✶talt “downwards”
    • ᴹQ. tal “downwards” ✧ PE21/22
  • ᴹQ. tál “foot; bottom” ✧ Ety/TAL
  • ᴹQ. talat “sheet”
  • N. tâl “foot; (lower) end” ✧ Ety/TAL

Element in

  • ᴹ√TALAM “base, root, foundation; floor, ground” ✧ Ety/TAL; PE21/56
  • ᴹ✶talrunya “sole of foot” ✧ Ety/RUN; Ety/TAL

Variations

  • TAL ✧ Ety/RUN; Ety/TAL; PE21/56
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/RUN; Ety/TAL; PE21/56] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tal

root. appraise, esteem, value

A root Tolkien mentioned in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s with a single derivative ᴹQ. tatalla- “admire, wonder at” (PE22/110). There are no signs elsewhere of this root being used with this meaning: typically √TAL = “foot”.

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. tatalla- “to admire, wonder at (the excellence of), marvel” ✧ PE22/110

Element in

  • ᴹQ. tatalla- “to admire, wonder at (the excellence of), marvel”

Variations

  • TAL ✧ PE22/110
Middle Primitive Elvish [PE22/110] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tāl

noun. foot

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TAL “foot” ✧ PE21/56

Element in

  • ᴹ✶talgarta “high boot” ✧ PE19/058

Variations

  • tál ✧ PE19/058
  • tăl- ✧ PE21/55
Middle Primitive Elvish [PE18/035; PE19/058; PE21/55; PE21/58; PE21/64; PE21/66] Group: Eldamo. Published by

talt

adverb. downwards

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TAL “foot”

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. tal “downwards” ✧ PE21/22
Middle Primitive Elvish [PE21/22] Group: Eldamo. Published by