Quenya 

táva

great tree

táva noun "great tree" (PE17:115)

táva

noun. great tree

A noun appearing as tāva “great tree” in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 derived from the root √TAW “wood”.

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. taule “great tree” under the early root ᴱ√TAVA “beam”, a homonym of ᴱQ. taule “pillar” under the early root ᴱ√TAW̯A (QL/90).

Derivations

  • TAW “wood” ✧ PE17/115

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
TAW > tāva[tāwa] > [tāβa] > [tāva]✧ PE17/115

Variations

  • tāva ✧ PE17/115

taulë

great tree

taulë noun "great tree" (LT1:267)