Qenya
talan
noun. floor, ground
talat
noun. sheet
talta-
verb. to slip (down), fall, slide down, slope
ataltare
noun. collapse
tál
noun. foot; bottom
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
A word for “sheet” in the Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s of unclear derivation.
Conceptual Development: In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, ᴱQ. talat was “dry land” (PE16/139). The word talat also appeared (unglossed) in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the mid-to-late 1930s (PE22/20).