tarma noun "pillar" (SA:tar); Tarmasundar (þ) "the Roots of the Pillar", the slopes of Mt. Meneltarma in Númenor (UT:166)
Quenya
tarmasundar
place name. Roots of the Pillar
tarma
pillar
tarma
noun. pillar
Element in
- ᴺQ. calmatarma “lampstand”
- Q. Meneltarma “Pillar of Heaven” ✧ SA/tar
- ᴺQ. otarmië “colonnade”
- Q. Tarmacorto “High Mountain Circle”
- Q. Tarmasundar “Roots of the Pillar” ✧ UT/166
- ᴺQ. tarmon “basalt, (lit.) pillar-rock”
Variations
- Tarma ✧ UT/166
tulwë
pillar, standard, pole
tulwë noun "pillar, standard, pole" (LT1:270)
A set of ridges extending from Meneltarma into each of the five regions (points of the “star”) of Númenor, translated “Roots of the Pillar” (UT/166). This name is a compound of tarma “pillar” and the plural form sundar, a variant sunda of sundo “base”.