talat-

slipping, sliding, falling down

talat- vb. a stem used for "slipping, sliding, falling down" (Letters:347), cf. atalta-, talta- and talantië

taltea

adjective. insecure

tál

noun. foot, foot; [ᴹQ.] bottom, [ᴱQ.] lowest part

The Quenya word for “foot” derived from the root √TAL of similar meaning (PE19/103; VT49/17; Ety/TAL). Given its Sindarin cognate S. tâl (not ✱✱taul) its ancient stem form must have had a short vowel, with the long vowel in the uninflected form the result of the subjective noun case which lengthened the base vowel of monosyllables (PE21/76). Q. tál could also refer to the bottom of things (PE21/21, 76) analogous to English “foot of the mountain” and similar phrases.

Conceptual Development: The earliest iteration of this word was ᴱQ. tala “foot” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TALA “support” (QL/88), a form also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/88). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s it became ᴱQ. tál with plural tăli indicating an ancient short vowel (PE14/43, 76). In the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, ᴹQ. tāl had inflected forms with tal-, again indicating a short vowel in the stem (PE21/21), and likewise with the (1930s-style) genitive form talen in The Etymologies written around 1937 (Ety/TAL). Most of its later appearances also imply a short vowel in the stem, the main exception being the plural form táli in the 1950s version of the Nieninquë “poem”.

Cognates

• S. tâl “foot; [lower] end”

Derivations

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

Element in

• Q. attalya “biped, *(lit.) two-footed”
• ᴺQ. cantalya “four-legged, quadruped, (lit.) four-footed”
• Q. táli lantalasselingië “*with feet like the music of falling leaves” ✧ PE16/096
• ᴺQ. tallimë “ankle, (lit.) foot-link”
• Q. taltil “toe, *(lit.) foot-tip”
• Q. taltol “big toe”
• Q. Tyeleptalëa “Silver-footed”

Variations

• tal ✧ PE19/103
• tāl ✧ VT43/16; VT49/17

lantë

falling

lantë (2) adj.? participle? "falling" (MC:214; this is "Qenya" - in Tolkien's later Quenya lantala)

talt

falling

(adj.) talt (lenited dalt, pl. ?telt) (slipping, insecure)

talt

falling

(lenited dalt, pl. ?telt) (slipping, insecure)

talt

slipping

(adj.) talt (lenited dalt, pl. ?telt) (falling, insecure)

talt

slipping

(lenited dalt, pl. ?telt) (falling, insecure)

talt

insecure

(adj.) talt (lenited dalt, pl. ?telt) (falling, slipping)

talt

insecure

(lenited dalt, pl. ?telt) (falling, slipping)

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.

dannad

noun. falling

Elements

Word	Gloss
danna-	“to fall”

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).

tāl

noun. foot

Derivations

• √TAL “foot; *flat; [ᴱ√] support”

Derivatives

• Q. tál “foot, foot; [ᴹQ.] bottom, [ᴱQ.] lowest part”
• Os. tal
  • S. tâl “foot; [lower] end”

Variations

• tal ✧ PE21/75

talt

adjective. slipping, falling, insecure

talt

adjective. slipping, falling, insecure

Derivations

• ᴹ√TALAT “to slip or slide down, incline, slope, lean, tip, topple over” ✧ Ety/TALÁT

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√TALÁT > talt	[talta] > [taltʰa] > [talθa] > [talθ] > [talt]	✧ Ety/TALÁT

tâl

noun. foot

pôd

noun. animal's foot