Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

málos

noun. forest

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s given as the cognate of G. goloth “forest”, derived from primitive ᴱ✶ŋgua-aloþ- (GL/41). This is likely a combination of ᴱ✶ŋu̯a “together” and some elaboration of the root ᴱ√ALA “spread”, the basis of “tree” words, so probably originally “✱together spread(ing)” or something to that effect.

Cognates

  • G. goloth “forest” ✧ GL/41; LT2A/Golosbrindi

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ŋgua-aloþ- > malosta > mālos[ŋgʷāloθ] > [ŋʷāloθ] > [ŋʷālos] > [mālos]✧ GL/41

Variations

  • mālos ✧ GL/41
Early Quenya [GL/41; LT2A/Golosbrindi] Group: Eldamo. Published by

taure

noun. forest

Cognates

  • En. taur “forest”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TAVA “beam”

Element in

Variations

  • taur- ✧ LT2/089 (taur-)
  • taurie ✧ PE16/139
Early Quenya [LT2/089; MC/213; MC/220; PE16/062; PE16/072; PE16/074; PE16/075; PE16/077; PE16/080; PE16/139] Group: Eldamo. Published by

taurie

noun. forest