sundo (þ) noun "base, root, root-word" (SUD), sc. a Quendian consonantal "base". According to VT46:16, Tolkien changed the root to STUD, thereby implying that sundo was earlier þundo (compare Sindarin thond "root"). PE18:95 gives the pl. form as sundur, seemingly implying a stem-form sundu-. It is not, however, used in the compound sundocarmë "base-structure" (PE18:84 not **sunducarmë), a term used in the description of the structure of the various Quendian "bases" or roots.
Quenya
sundo
noun. base
sundo
base, root, root-word
sundo
noun. base, root, root-word, base, root, [ᴹQ.] root-word
Derivations
- ᴹ√STUD “base, ground”
Element in
- Q. Sundocarmë “Base-structure” ✧ PE18/084
- ᴺQ. sundoharmar “capital [funds], (lit.) base treasures”
- Q. sundóma “determinant vowel, root-vowel, determinant vowel, root-vowel, [ᴹQ.] vocalic determinant”
- ᴺQ. sundon “bedrock, (lit.) base-rock”
- Q. Tarmasundar “Roots of the Pillar” ✧ UT/166
talma
base, foundation, root
talma noun "base, foundation, root" (TALAM), also translated "bottom" in the expression "top to bottom", see below.% Talmar Ambaren (place-name, *"Foundations of the World" - this is pre-classical "Qenya" with genitive in -en instead of -o as in LotR-style Quenya) (TALAM). Allative talmanna in the phrase telmello talmanna** "from hood to base**, top to bottom" _(VT46:18; notice misreading "telmanna" in the Etymologies as printed in LR, entry TEL-, TELU-)_
base