taras

noun. mount, hill

A noun appearing in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s, with its singular form taras glossed “mount” (PE22/126) and its plural form tarassi glossed “hills” (PE22/126). It appears to be an elaboration of ᴹQ. tára “high”, so perhaps more literally means “✱heights”. In later writings it seems Q. taras was used as a word for “tower” (PE17/22), though S. Taras did reappear as the name of a mountain in Sindarin (S/119).

Cognates

• S. Taras

Element in

• ᴹQ. lairesse nihare to tarassi, yu unta hrívesse landannar “in the summer I live in [i.e. on] the hills [as a rule], and come down to the plains in the winter” ✧ PE22/125
• ᴹQ. Taras Mindolluin thāra Ondoresse “Mt. Mindolluin stands in Gondor” ✧ PE22/126

Elements

Word	Gloss
tára	“lofty, high”

Variations

• Taras ✧ PE22/126