taurë noun "(great) wood, forest" (SA:taur, Letters:308, TÁWAR. VT39:7), pl. tauri in Markirya
Quenya
taure
noun. forest
taurë
noun. forest, (great) wood
taurë
(great) wood, forest
taurelasselindon
like leaves of forests
taurelasselindon "like leaves of forests" (MC:213, 220; this is a "Qenya" similative form: taure-lasseli-ndon "forest-leaves-like")
tarwë
cross, crucifix
tarwë noun "cross, Crucifix" (QL:89)
tarwë
noun. cross, crucifix
@@@ later etymology unclear
(taure)lanta
noun. clearing, open space in the forest
ve tauri lillassië
like leaves of forests
The fifteenth line of the Markirya poem (MC/222). The first word is ve “like”, followed the plural of taurë “forest” and the plural of the adjective lillassëa “having many leaves”, in agreement with the noun.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> ve taur-i lillass-ië = “✱like forest-(plural) manyleaved-(plural)”
Taurë Huinéva
forest of shadow
Taurë Huinéva place-name "Forest of Shadow", Sindarin Taur na Fuin(PHUY, VT46:10)
huinë
deep shadow
huinë noun "deep shadow" (PHUY), "gloom" (VT41:8), "gloom, darkness" (SA:fuin), also used for "shadow" = Sauron (LR:56). Possessive (adjectival) form huinéva in the name Taurë Huinéva, q.v. In earlier sources, huinë is quoted as a variant of fuinë, but according to VT41:8, huinë is the proper Quenya form and fuinë is Telerin.With prefix nu- "under" and allative ending -nna in nuhuinenna (SD:246); also unuhuinë "under-shadow" (LR:47).
málos
forest
málos noun "forest" (LT2:342 rather taurë in Tolkien's later Quenya)
tauno
forest
tauno noun "forest" (LT1:267; in Tolkien's later Quenya taurë)
fuinë
deep shadow
fuinë noun "deep shadow" (PHUY; cf. "Qenya" fuin "night" in MC:221). According to VT41:8, fuinë is not a Quenya form at all, but Telerin for Quenya huinë (but unquestionably, fuinë is quoted as a Quenya form in certain earlier sources; cf. also Fuinur below - perhaps we may assume that fuinë was borrowed into Quenya from Telerin and thus came to co-exist with huinë?
fuine
noun. deep shadow
PQ. deep shadow, night shade
The common Quenya word for “forest”, derived from the root √TAW “wood” (PE17/115; VT39/7).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon Tolkien had ᴱQ. tauno “great forest” derived from the root ᴱ√TAVA “beam” (QL/90). It seems to have had the form taur- in the early name ᴱQ. Rúsitaurion “Son of the Weary Forest” (LT2/89), and the form was ᴱQ. taure in the Oilima Markirya and its various drafts (MC/213, 220; PE16/62 ff.). In Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s it briefly had the form taurie (PE16/138). In The Etymologies of the 1930s it had the form ᴹQ. taure “great wood, forest” as a derivative of the root ᴹ√TAWAR of similar meaning (Ety/TÁWAR). It was mentioned regularly in Tolkien’s later writings, generally with the gloss “forest”.