A noun appearing as ᴱQ. {sarne >>} sarno “table” in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√SARA having to do with sawing and sawed things like planks (QL/82). The contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa also had sarno “table” (PME/82).
Early Quenya
sar
noun. earth, soil
Changes
sar→ kemen “earth, soil” ✧ PE16/139
sarno
noun. table
Changes
sarne→ sarno ✧ QL/082Cognates
- G. sard “table”
Derivations
- ᴱ√ÞARA “*saw” ✧ QL/082
Element in
- Eq. palasar “great table” ✧ QL/071
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√SARA > sarno [sarnō] > [sarno] ✧ QL/082 Variations
- sarne ✧ QL/082 (
sarne)
palukta
noun. table
A noun appearing as ᴱQ. palukta “table” in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√PALA having to do with flat things (QL/71).
Neo-Quenya: Since √PAL was still associated with flat things in Tolkien’s later writing ([ᴹQ.] palar “flat field”, Q. palta “flat of the hand”), I would retain this word for purposes of Neo-Quenya in a slightly modified form: ᴺQ. paluhta “table”.
A word for “earth, soil” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, but it was marked with an “X” and ᴱQ. kemen (of similar meaning) was written next to it as an alternative (PE16/139).