Noldorin
toloth
cardinal. eight
toloth
cardinal. eight
Cognates
- ᴹQ. tolto “eight” ✧ Ety/TOL¹-OTH/OT
Derivations
- ᴹ√TOL-OTH/OT “eight” ✧ Ety/TOL¹-OTH/OT
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√TOL¹-OTH/OT > toloth [tolotʰo] > [toloθo] > [toloθ] ✧ Ety/TOL¹-OTH/OT
Tolkien emended toloth to tolodh, cf. VT/42:31 (and also VT/48:6). If we are to follow him, a word such as tolothen would be incorrect, unless the two forms coexisted