A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “island”, a more elaborate form of ᴱQ. tol of similar meaning (QL/94). It also appeared as tolome “island” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/94).
Early Quenya
tolla
noun. hill top
tolda
noun. hill (with a flat top), hill top; town on a hill
Derivations
Element in
- Eq. tollalinta ruste “upon crumbling hills” ✧ MC/214
- Eq. taitelúmen san tollanta ranka naiko lunganár “*the firmament then leans sickly on broken hill[s]” ✧ PE16/077
- Eq. telumen tollanta naiko lunganar “the vault of heaven sagged upon the tops of the hills” ✧ MC/221; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√TOLO > tolda [toldā] > [tolda] ✧ QL/094 Variations
- tolla ✧ PE16/075
tolle
noun. island
tolome
noun. island
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “hill with a flat top, town on a hill” derived from the root ᴱ√TOLO (QL/94). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the glosses “flat hill, town on hill” (PME/94). It appeared in the modified form tolla with the sense “hill top” in various versions of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem, mostly in various inflected forms (PE16/75; MC/214, 221). There is no sign of this word thereafter.