tâl

flat space

_ n. _flat space, platform. Q. talan or talma. >> talan

tâl

noun. foot; [lower] end

The Sindarin word for “foot”, derived from the root √TAL of similar meaning (SA/celeb; Ety/TAL). As an element in compounds, it could also refer to the “end” of something, especially the lower end, as in Ramdal “Wall’s End” (S/122; Ety/TAL). This word probably may be used metaphorically for the “foot” of things like mountains and pedestals.

Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to G. tâl (tald-) “foot” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/68), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√TALA “support” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT2A/Talceleb). Tolkien experimented with some variant forms like ᴱN. tail or taul in documents from the 1920s (PE13/123, 153), but N. tâl “foot” was restored in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TAL “foot” (Ety/TAL) and Tolkien seems to have stuck with that form thereafter.

Cognates

• Q. tál “foot, foot; [ᴹQ.] bottom, [ᴱQ.] lowest part”

Derivations

• Os. tal
  • ✶tāl “foot”
  • √TAL “foot; *flat; [ᴱ√] support”

Element in

• S. Celebrindal “Silverfoot” ✧ SA/celeb; SA/tal
• S. Labadal “Hopafoot”
• S. Ramdal “Wall’s End” ✧ SA/tal
• S. tad-dal “two-legged, two-legged, *biped”
• ᴺS. tallif “ankle”
• S. talraph “stirrup” ✧ UT/313
• ᴺS. talvad “footpath”

Variations

• tal ✧ SA/celeb; SA/tal

talan

flat space

pl1. telain** **_ n. _flat space, platform. Q. talan or talma. >> tâl

tâl

foot

(body-part and unit of measure) tâl (i dâl [LR:298], o thâl), also -dal in compounds; pl. tail (i thail). In LR:390 s.v.

tâl

foot

(i dâl [LR:298], o thâl), also -dal in compounds; pl. tail (i thail). In LR:390 s.v.

telluin

sole of the foot

(i delluin, o thelluin), pl. tellyn (i thellyn). *Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” telloein, tellen (LR:384 s.v. *

pôd

foot

(of animal) pôd (i bôd, o phôd, construct pod), pl. pŷd (i phŷd).

pôd

foot

(i bôd, o phôd, construct pod), pl. p**ŷd (i ph**ŷd).