inclined
Quenya
talta
sloping, tilted, leaning
talta
adjective. inclined
talta
adjective. tottering, unsteady, tottering, unsteady, [ᴱQ.] shaky, wobbling; [ᴹQ.] sloping, tilted, leaning, inclined, [ᴱQ.] slanting
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶taltā > talta [taltā] > [talta] ✧ PE18/089
talta-
slip, slide down, collapse, slope
talta- vb. "slip, slide down, collapse, slope" (TALÁT); reduplicated stem in the participle talta-taltala in Markirya, simply translated "falling" in MC:215. Strong intransitive conjugation: present talta, aorist talt- [derived from talati > talti, hence presumably *talti*- with endings and taltë without any], past talantë, perfect ataltië. Weak transitive conjugation: present taltëa, aorist talta, past taltanë**. This is said to be the conjugation type of a certain class of verbs, namely "√TALAT stems" (PE17:186).
talta-
verb. slip, fall
talta-
verb. to slip, slide down, fall, to slip, slide down, collapse, fall, [ᴹQ.] slip down, slope
Derivations
- ✶talat- “slip (down), collapse, fall in ruin” ✧ PE17/186; PE17/186; PE17/186; PE17/186; PE17/186; PE22/133
- √TALAT “to slip (down), collapse, fall in ruin; slipping, sliding, falling down; ground (bottom), to slip (down), collapse, fall in ruin; slipping, sliding, falling down; ground (bottom); [ᴹ√] slide down, incline, slope, lean, tip, topple over” ✧ PE18/085
Element in
- Q. elenillor pella talta-taltala “beyond the stars falling” ✧ MC/222; MC/222
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶talatā > talta [talatā] > [taltā] > [talta] ✧ PE17/186 ✶tal’ti- > talt- [talati] > [talti] ✧ PE17/186 ✶atā̆latie > ataltie [atālatie] > [ataltie] ✧ PE17/186 ✶taltăyā > taltea [taltajā] > [taltea] ✧ PE17/186 ✶talta > taltuva- [talatuva] > [taltuva] ✧ PE22/133 Variations
- talta ✧ PE22/164 (
talta)- talat- ✧ PE22/164 (talat-)
tál
noun. foot, foot; [ᴹQ.] bottom, [ᴱQ.] lowest part
The Quenya word for “foot” derived from the root √TAL of similar meaning (PE19/103; VT49/17; Ety/TAL). Given its Sindarin cognate S. tâl (not ✱✱taul) its ancient stem form must have had a short vowel, with the long vowel in the uninflected form the result of the subjective noun case which lengthened the base vowel of monosyllables (PE21/76). Q. tál could also refer to the bottom of things (PE21/21, 76) analogous to English “foot of the mountain” and similar phrases.
Conceptual Development: The earliest iteration of this word was ᴱQ. tala “foot” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TALA “support” (QL/88), a form also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/88). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s it became ᴱQ. tál with plural tăli indicating an ancient short vowel (PE14/43, 76). In the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, ᴹQ. tāl had inflected forms with tal-, again indicating a short vowel in the stem (PE21/21), and likewise with the (1930s-style) genitive form talen in The Etymologies written around 1937 (Ety/TAL). Most of its later appearances also imply a short vowel in the stem, the main exception being the plural form táli in the 1950s version of the Nieninquë “poem”.
Cognates
- S. tâl “foot; [lower] end”
Derivations
Element in
- Q. attalya “biped, *(lit.) two-footed”
- ᴺQ. cantalya “four-legged, quadruped, (lit.) four-footed”
- Q. táli lantalasselingië “*with feet like the music of falling leaves” ✧ PE16/096
- ᴺQ. tallimë “ankle, (lit.) foot-link”
- Q. taltil “toe, *(lit.) foot-tip”
- Q. taltol “big toe”
- Q. Tyeleptalëa “Silver-footed”
Variations
- tal ✧ PE19/103
- tāl ✧ VT43/16; VT49/17
nenda
sloping
[nenda] (2) adj. "sloping" (DEN, struck out)
talta adj. "sloping, tilted, leaning"; also "incline" as noun (TALÁT)