tavor

noun. woodpecker (bird)

tavor

noun. woodpecker, knocker, woodpecker, knocker; [G.] wood fay

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s for a “woodpecker”, derived from the primitive agental form ᴹ✶tamrō “knocker” (Ety/TAM). It had an (archaic?) variant tafr, pronounced tavr, which became tavor when the final r became syllabic.

Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, G. tavor was a noun for “a wood fay” (GL/69).

Cognates

• ᴹQ. tambaro “woodpecker, (lit.) knocker” ✧ Ety/TAM

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tamrō “woodpecker, knocker” ✧ Ety/TAM
  • ᴹ√TAM “knock” ✧ Ety/TAM

Element in

• N. Tavrobel ✧ Ety/TAM

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tamrō > tafr > tavor	[tamrō] > [tamro] > [tamr] > [tavr] > [tavor]	✧ Ety/TAM

tavr

noun. woodpecker (bird)

tafr

noun. woodpecker (bird)