tobas (i dobas, o thobas), pl. tebais (i thebais) for archaic pl. töbais (VT46:19)
Noldorin
tobas
noun. roofing, roof
tobas
noun. roofing, roof
orthel-
verb. to roof, screen above
Sindarin
tobas
roof, roofing
tobas
roof, roofing
(i** dobas, o thobas), pl. tebais (i** thebais) for archaic pl. töbais (VT46:19)
toba
roof over
(i** doba, i** thobar) (cover). Cited as a ”Noldorin” infinitive in -o (tobo).**
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);
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);
Quenya
tel
roof
tel noun "roof" (LT1:268). Rather tópa in Tolkiens later Quenya.
tópa
roof
tópa noun "roof" (TOP)
tópa-
roof
tópa- vb. "roof" (TOP)
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Qenya
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).
Gnomish
teld
noun. roof
telthon
noun. roof
Early Quenya
tel
noun. roof
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “roofing, roof” under the root ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof” (Ety/TOP; EtyAC/TOP). The only gloss appearing in The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road was “roofing” (LR/394), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne clarified that the full gloss was “roofing, roof” in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/19).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. teld or telthon “roof” derived from the early root ᴱ√tel- “cover in; close; finish” (GL/70). The Official Name List from the 1910s had only Teld “roof” (PE13/104).