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

taru

noun. horn

Cognates

  • G. târ “horn” ✧ LT2A/Taruithorn

Derivations

  • ᴱ√DARA(MA) “batter, thud, beat” ✧ LT2A/Dramborleg; QL/089
  • ᴱ√TARA “*horn” ✧ QL/089

Element in

  • Eq. tarukka “horned” ✧ LT2A/Taruithorn; QL/089
  • Eq. tarukko “bull, ox” ✧ LT2A/Taruithorn; LT2A/Taruithorn; QL/089

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TARA² > taru[tarū] > [taru]✧ QL/089

Variations

  • taru- ✧ PME/089
Early Quenya [LT2A/Dramborleg; LT2A/Taruithorn; PME/089; QL/089] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tarukka

adjective. horned

A word for “horned” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. taru “horn” (QL/57, 89). It was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/57).

Early Quenya [LT2A/Taruithorn; PME/057; QL/057; QL/089] Group: Eldamo. Published by