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tauca

stiff, wooden

tauca ("k") "stiff, wooden" (PE17:115)

tauca

adjective. stiff, wooden

A word in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 glossed “stiff, wooden” and derived from the root √TAW “wood” (PE17/115). Its Sindarin cognate S. taug was gloss “firm, strong”, so its ancient sense was probably something like “stiff like wood”.

Cognates

  • S. taug “firm, strong, (?withstand)” ✧ PE17/115

Derivations

  • √TAW “wood” ✧ PE17/115

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√TAW > tauka[tauka]✧ PE17/115

Variations

  • tauka ✧ PE17/115

norna

stiff, tough; hard, firm, resistant

norna adj. "stiff, tough; hard, firm, resistant" (WJ:413, PE17:106), "thrawn, tough, obdurate", mainly applied to persons (PE17:181)