tolosta fraction "one eighth" (1/8). Also tolsat, tosta. (VT48:11)
Quenya
to(lo)sta
fraction. one eighth
tolosta
one eighth
tosta
one eighth
tosta fraction "one eighth" (1/8). Also tolosta, tolsat (VT48:11)
tolsat
one eighth
tolsat fraction "one eighth" (1/8). Also tolosta, tosta. (VT48:11)
tolsat
fraction. one eighth
A word appearing as tolosta, tosta, or tolsat “1/8” in notes on numbers from the late 1960s, a combination of toldo “eight” with the fractional suffix -sta.
Conceptual Development: The Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s had ᴱQ. toltosto “[one] 8th” with adjective form ᴱQ. toltost(y)a (PE14/51, 84), combinations of ᴱQ. tolto “eight” with the 1920s fractional suffix ᴱQ. -sto.