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talta

sloping, tilted, leaning

talta adj. "sloping, tilted, leaning"; also "incline" as noun (TALÁT)

talta

adjective. inclined

inclined

Quenya [tottering, unsteady PE 18:38] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

talta

adjective. tottering, unsteady, tottering, unsteady, [ᴱQ.] shaky, wobbling; [ᴹQ.] sloping, tilted, leaning, inclined, [ᴱQ.] slanting

Derivations

  • taltā “tottering, unsteady” ✧ PE18/089
    • 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” ✧ PE18/089

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
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

Quenya [PE 22:113; PE 22:133f] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

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

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
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-)
Quenya [MC/222; MC/223; PE17/186; PE22/134; PE22/164] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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

  • tāl “foot”
    • TAL “foot; *flat; [ᴱ√] support”

Element in

Variations

  • tal ✧ PE19/103
  • tāl ✧ VT43/16; VT49/17
Quenya [PE16/096; PE17/130; PE19/103; VT43/16; VT49/17] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nenda

sloping

[nenda] (2) adj. "sloping" (DEN, struck out)