A nursery name for the middle finger glossed “sticker-up” in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from 1968 as an elaboration of the root √TOL “stick up” (VT47/10). The word also appeared as tolyo in this document’s drafts (VT47/26-28), but in a slightly later version it was tollo (VT48/6).
Quenya
tollo
tollo
tollo
noun. sticker-up
tolyo
noun. sticker-up
tolyo
sticker-up
tolyo noun "sticker-up", "prominent one", term used in children's play for "middle finger" or "middle toe" (VT47:10, VT48:4). The form tollo in VT48:6, 16 would seem to be a variant.
tol
island, isle
tol noun "island, isle" (rising with sheer sides from the sea or from the river, SA:tol, VT47:26). In early "Qenya", the word was defined as "island, any rise standing alone in water, plain of green, etc" (LT1:269). The stem is toll-; the Etymologies as published in LR gives the pl. "tolle" (TOL2), but this is a misreading for tolli (see VT46:19 and compare LT1:85). The primitive form of tol is variously cited as ¤tolla (VT47:26) and ¤tollo (TOL2).
tó
wool
tó 1) noun "wool" (TOW)
tolloquen
noun. islander
A neologism for “islander” created by Petri Tikka in PPQ (PPQ) from the early 2000s based on the 1930s primitive form ᴹ✶tollo for “island”, combined with Q. quén “person”. In theory this should be updated to tollequen to match the 1960s form Q. tollë for “island”, but I think tolloquen can stand as a variant formation.
lóna
island, remote land difficult to reach
lóna (2) noun "island, remote land difficult to reach" (LONO (AWA) ). Obsoleted by #1 above?
oa
wool
oa (2) noun "wool" (LT1:249; evidently replaced by tó in Tolkien's later Quenya)
tollo, variant of tolyo, q.v. (VT48:6, 16)