toa (2) adj. "of wool, woollen" (TOW; in GL:71 toa was glossed "wool", noun instead of adjective; but in Tolkien's later Quenya, the noun is tó)
Quenya
toa
töa
toa
of wool, woollen
töa
noun. wood (as material)
A word for “wood” mentioned in passing in notes on the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 (VT39/6), also appearing in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 with the gloss “wood as material” and derived from the root √TAW “wood” (PE17/115).
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien instead had ᴹQ. tavar “wood (material)” derived from primitive ᴹ✶tawar of the same meaning, from the extended root ᴹ√TÁWAR “wood, forest” (Ety/TÁWAR). In this earlier conception, the awa became ava rather than reducing to oa because the initial a was stressed. Stress alone was probably not enough to preserve ancient áwa in Tolkien’s later conception of the language’s phonetic development.
Cognates
- S. taw “wood as material” ✧ PE17/115
Derivations
- √TAW “wood” ✧ PE17/115
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √TAW > töa [tawa] > [toa] ✧ PE17/115
oa
wool
oa (2) noun "wool" (LT1:249; evidently replaced by tó in Tolkien's later Quenya)
tó
wool
tó 1) noun "wool" (TOW)
toa (1) ("töa")noun "wood" (VT39:6), "wood as material" (PE17:115)