turu (3) noun "wood" (properly firewood, but used of wood in general) (LT1:270)
Quenya
tavar
wood
taure
noun. forest
turu
wood
tauno
forest
tauno noun "forest" (LT1:267; in Tolkien's later Quenya taurë)
toina
adjective. wood, wood, *wooden, made of wood
A word glossed “wood” appearing in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 derived from primitive ✶tawĭnā (PE17/115) and hence probably an adjective “✱wooden, (made) of wood” as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (QQ/toina).
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien instead had ᴹQ. taurina “of wood”, an adjectival form of ᴹQ. tavar “wood (material)” (Ety/TÁWAR). The word ᴹQ. toina appeared in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1940s, but was unglossed, so whether it meant “✱wooden” is unclear.
Cognates
- S. tawen “wood (of material), ?wooden (of make), wood (of material), wooden (of make)” ✧ PE17/115
Derivations
Elements
Word Gloss -ina “adjective suffix; passive participle” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tawĭnā > toina [tawinā] > [toinā] > [toina] ✧ PE17/115
málos
forest
málos noun "forest" (LT2:342 rather taurë in Tolkien's later Quenya)
tavar (1) noun "wood" (TÁWAR)