Quenya 

telumë

dome, roof, canopy

telumë noun "dome, roof, canopy" (TEL/TELU, WJ:411 cf. 399; see also telluma); "firmament" (MC:214), inflected telumen in MC:221 (the latter is "Qenya"). Telumehtar "warrior of the sky", older name of Menelmacar = Orion (Appendix E, TEL/TELU, WJ:411); Telumendil *"Sky-friend", name of a constellation (Silm)

telumë

noun. roof, canopy; heaven, sky, roof, canopy, [ᴹQ.] vault, dome (of heaven); [Q.] heaven, sky, [ᴱQ.] firmament

A word for “roof, canopy” appearing in the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 derived from √TELU “roof in, put the crown on a building” (WJ/399, 411). Tolkien said it “was probably one of the earliest Quendian words for the heavens, the firmament, before the increase of their knowledge, and the invention of the Eldarin word Menel” (WJ/411). As such, it was only used for “heavens” metaphorically, in mythical names like Telumehtar “Warrior of the Sky”, the Quenya name of the Orion constellation (LotR/1113; WJ/411).

Conceptual Development: The first precursor to this word seems to be ᴱQ. telimbo “canopy, often used = sky” under the early root ᴱ√TELE “cover in” (QL/90). This became ᴱQ. telume “heavens, vault of heaven, firmament” in Qenya poems written around 1930 (MC/214, 221; PE16/142). In the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s it was ᴹQ. telume “vault, heaven” (PE21/16) and in The Etymologies of the 1930s it was glossed “dome, (especially) dome of heaven” under the root ᴹ√TEL(U) (Ety/TEL).

Derivations

  • TELU “roof in, put the crown on a building” ✧ WJ/411

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
tel-u > telume[telume]✧ WJ/411

Variations

  • telume ✧ WJ/399; WJ/411
Quenya [WJ/399; WJ/411] Group: Eldamo. Published by

telluma

dome, copula

telluma noun "dome, copula", especially the "Dome of Varda" over Valinor, but also applied to the domes of the mansion of Manwë and Varda upon Taniquetil. Adopted from Valarin _delgūmā under the influence of pure Quenya telumë (WJ:399, 411). Pl. tellumar is attested (Nam, RGEO:66)_.

telë-

finish, end

telë- vb. "finish, end" (intransitive), also "be the last thing or person in a series or sequence of events" (WJ:411; telë may be taken as the 3rd person aorist of a stem tel-, though it may also be interpreted as an example of an E-stem verb, as suggested by the final hyphen)soleted by # 1 above)

tel

roof

tel noun "roof" (LT1:268). Rather tópa in Tolkiens later Quenya.

telya-

finish, wind up, conclude

telya- vb. "finish, wind up, conclude" (transitive) (WJ:411)

tópa

roof

tópa noun "roof" (TOP)

tópa-

roof

tópa- vb. "roof" (TOP)

Sindarin 

Menel

noun. the heavens

_n. _the heavens, the apparent dome of the sky. Probably a Quenya word introduced into Sindarin. It was a 'pictorial' word, as the lore of the Eldar and the Númenoreans know much astronomy.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:24] _-_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

telu

dome

telu (i delu, o thelu) (high roof), pl. tely (i thely)

telu

dome

(i delu, o thelu) (high roof), pl. tely (i thely)

telu

roof

(noun, high roof) telu (i delu, o thelu) (dome), pl. tely (i thely);

telu

roof

(i delu, o thelu) (dome), pl. tely (i thely);

orthel

roof

(verb.) orthel- (i orthel, in erthelir for archaic in örthelir) (screen above);

orthel

roof

(i orthel, in erthelir for archaic in örthelir) (screen above); 

rond

vault, vaulted ceiling

(construct ron) (cave, cavern, hall with vaulted roof), pl. rynd (idh rynd), coll. pl. ronnath

toba

roof over

(i** doba, i** thobar) (cover). Cited as a ”Noldorin” infinitive in -o (tobo).**

tobas

roof, roofing

(i** dobas, o thobas), pl. tebais (i** thebais) for archaic pl. töbais (VT46:19)

Noldorin 

telu

noun. dome, high roof

Noldorin [Ety/391] Group: SINDICT. Published by

orthel-

verb. to roof, screen above

Noldorin [Ety/391] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Valarin 

delgūmā

noun. dome

Derivatives

  • Q. telluma “dome, cupola, vault” ✧ WJ/399
Valarin [WJ/399; WJ/411] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Qenya 

telume

noun. vault, dome (of heaven)

Cognates

  • N. telu “dome, high roof” ✧ Ety/TEL

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TEL(U) “*roof” ✧ Ety/TEL
  • ᴹ✶telumē “vault, heaven” ✧ PE21/16
    • ᴹ√TEL(U) “*roof” ✧ PE21/16

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Telumehtar “Warrior of the Sky” ✧ Ety/TEL

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√TELU > telume[telume]✧ Ety/TEL
ᴹ✶tel·u·mē > telume[telumē] > [telume]✧ PE21/16
Qenya [Ety/TEL; PE21/06; PE21/07; PE21/09; PE21/16; PE21/38] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tópa

noun. roof

A noun for “roof” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof” (Ety/TOP).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a similar form ᴱQ. túpo “roof, cover, lid” under the early root ᴱ√TUPU (QL/95), with just the gloss “roof” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/95). It also had a couple of other unrelated words: ᴱQ. tel (teld-) “roof” and ᴱQ. telin (telimb-) “roof, covering” both derived from the early root ᴱ√TELE (QL/90).

Cognates

  • N. tobas “roofing, roof” ✧ Ety/TOP

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶tōp- “to roof” ✧ Ety/TOP
    • ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof, roof, cover” ✧ Ety/TOP

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶tōp- > tópa[tōpa]✧ Ety/TOP

Middle Primitive Elvish

telumē

noun. vault, heaven

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TEL(U) “*roof” ✧ PE21/16

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. telume “vault, dome (of heaven)” ✧ PE21/16

Element in

Variations

  • tel·u·mē ✧ PE21/16
Middle Primitive Elvish [PE21/16] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

teld

noun. roof

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TELE “cover in; close; finish” ✧ GL/70

Variations

  • telthon ✧ GL/70
  • Teld ✧ PE13/104
Gnomish [GL/70; PE13/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

telthon

noun. roof

Early Quenya

telume

noun. the heavens, (vault of) heaven, firmament

Changes

  • teluvaiya ✧ PE16/065

Element in

Variations

  • telu ✧ PE16/065 (telu)
Early Quenya [MC/214; MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/065; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/142] Group: Eldamo. Published by

telúme

noun. finish, conclusion, (the great) end

Element in

  • Eq. Irmina Telume “End of the World, Great End” ✧ PE13/104
  • Eq. telúmea “final, conclusive, end; last; extreme” ✧ QL/091

Variations

  • Telume ✧ PE13/104
  • telūme ✧ PME/091
  • telū̆me ✧ QL/091
  • telumen ✧ QL/091
Early Quenya [PE13/104; PME/091; QL/091] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tel

noun. roof

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TELE “cover in; close; finish” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; QL/090

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TELE > tel[teld] > [tel]✧ QL/090
Early Quenya [LT1A/Telimektar; QL/090] Group: Eldamo. Published by