rondo

noun. roof; cave, cavern

Cognates

• N. rhonn “roof, cave” ✧ Ety/ROD
• Ilk. rond “domed roof” ✧ Ety/ROD

Derivations

• ᴹ√ROD “roof, cave” ✧ Ety/ROD

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√ROD > rondo	[rondo]	✧ Ety/ROD

tópa

noun. roof

A noun for “roof” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof” (Ety/TOP).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a similar form ᴱQ. túpo “roof, cover, lid” under the early root ᴱ√TUPU (QL/95), with just the gloss “roof” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/95). It also had a couple of other unrelated words: ᴱQ. tel (teld-) “roof” and ᴱQ. telin (telimb-) “roof, covering” both derived from the early root ᴱ√TELE (QL/90).

Cognates

• N. tobas “roofing, roof” ✧ Ety/TOP

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tōp- “to roof” ✧ Ety/TOP
  • ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof, roof, cover” ✧ Ety/TOP

Element in

• ᴺQ. hentópa “eyelid”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tōp- > tópa	[tōpa]	✧ Ety/TOP