Middle Primitive Elvish
tuluk
root. *support, prop; steady, firm
Derivatives
- ᴹ✶tulku “support, prop” ✧ Ety/TULUK
- ᴹQ. tulko “support, prop” ✧ Ety/TULUK
- ᴹ✶tulukmē “support, prop” ✧ Ety/TULUK
- ᴺQ. tulca- “to set up, establish, *found; to fix, stick in,”
- ᴹQ. tulka “firm, immovable, steadfast; strong” ✧ Ety/TULUK
- ᴺQ. tuluhta- “to support, prop (up), uphold”
- ᴺS. tolcha- “to support, *steady, comfort; to make firm, confirm”
- N. Tolchas ✧ Ety/TULUK
- N. tolog “stalwart, trusty” ✧ Ety/TULUK
An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. tulka “firm, strong, immoveable, steadfast”, N. tolog “stalwart, trusty”, and ᴹQ. tulko/N. tulu “support, prop” (Ety/TULUK). The “steady, firm” senses of the 1930s root are consistent with derivatives of the earlier root ᴱ√TULUK from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. tulka- “fix, stick in, set up, establish”, G. tulga- “make firm, confirm, settle, steady; comfort” and ᴱQ. tulunka/G. tulug “steady, firm” (QL/95; GL/71); nearby ᴱ√TḶKḶ (with no derivatives) may also have been related (QL/93).
However, the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a distinct root ᴱ√TḶPḶ with derivatives like ᴱQ. talpa/G. talp “support, prop”, ᴱQ. tulpu-/G. talpa- “prop up”, and G. clib- “uphold, support” (QL/93; GL/26, 69). This ᴱ√TḶPḶ may have been related to ᴱ√TULU as presented in the Qenya Lexicon, which in this document had the more ancient sense “uphold, support” (QL/95). Thus I think the 1930s derivatives of ᴹ√TULUK having to do with “support” may have been transferred from 1910s ᴱ√TḶPḶ.