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.

tolyo

noun. sticker-up

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 this document’s drafts (VT47/26-28), but in a slightly later version it was tollo (VT48/6).

Changes

• tolyon → tolyo “sticker-out” ✧ VT47/10

Cognates

• S. toleg “*sticker-up” ✧ VT48/06
• T. tollë “*sticker-up” ✧ VT48/06
• T. tolot “eight” ✧ VT48/06

Derivations

• √TOL “stick up or out, stand up (out and above neighboring things), raise the head” ✧ VT47/10; VT47/11; VT47/16; VT47/28
• √TOLOD “eight” ✧ VT47/33

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√TOL > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/10
√TOL > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/11
√tol > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/16
√TOL > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/28
√tolot > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/33

Variations

• tolyon ✧ VT47/26 (tolyon)
• tollo ✧ VT48/06

tollo

tollo

tollo, variant of tolyo, q.v. (VT48:6, 16)

tollo

noun. sticker-up