turúva adj. "wooden" (LT1:270); cf. turu #3.
Quenya
turu
wood
turúva
wooden
tavar
wood
tavar (1) noun "wood" (TÁWAR)
tavárëa
wooden
#tavárëa ?adj. "wooden" (tauretavárëa = "forest-wooden"?) (TI:415). If so perhaps a near-synonym of taurina.
töa
noun. wood (as material)
A word for “wood” mentioned in passing in notes on the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 (VT39/6), also appearing in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 with the gloss “wood as material” and derived from the root √TAW “wood” (PE17/115).
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien instead had ᴹQ. tavar “wood (material)” derived from primitive ᴹ✶tawar of the same meaning, from the extended root ᴹ√TÁWAR “wood, forest” (Ety/TÁWAR). In this earlier conception, the awa became ava rather than reducing to oa because the initial a was stressed. Stress alone was probably not enough to preserve ancient áwa in Tolkien’s later conception of the language’s phonetic development.
Cognates
- S. taw “wood as material” ✧ PE17/115
Derivations
- √TAW “wood” ✧ PE17/115
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √TAW > töa [tawa] > [toa] ✧ PE17/115
toina
adjective. wood, wood, *wooden, made of wood
A word glossed “wood” appearing in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 derived from primitive ✶tawĭnā (PE17/115) and hence probably an adjective “✱wooden, (made) of wood” as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (QQ/toina).
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien instead had ᴹQ. taurina “of wood”, an adjectival form of ᴹQ. tavar “wood (material)” (Ety/TÁWAR). The word ᴹQ. toina appeared in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1940s, but was unglossed, so whether it meant “✱wooden” is unclear.
Cognates
- S. tawen “wood (of material), ?wooden (of make), wood (of material), wooden (of make)” ✧ PE17/115
Derivations
Elements
Word Gloss -ina “adjective suffix; passive participle” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tawĭnā > toina [tawinā] > [toinā] > [toina] ✧ PE17/115
turu (3) noun "wood" (properly firewood, but used of wood in general) (LT1:270)