Early Noldorin
taur
noun. forest
Cognates
- Eq. taure “forest”
Element in
- En. Taur-na-Fuin “Deadly Nightshade” ✧ SM/026
Variations
- Taur ✧ SM/026
aulos
noun. forest
tîr
noun. king
Cognates
- Eq. tur “king” ✧ PE13/154
Element in
Variations
- tír ✧ PE13/148; PE13/154
- thir ✧ PE13/155 (thir)
dron
noun. wood
Derivations
- ᴱ√TUÐU “kindle”
dâ
adjective. high
Changes
da→ dá ✧ PE13/141Cognates
Derivations
Variations
- dá ✧ PE13/141
- da ✧ PE13/141 (
da)
The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. drui or drû “wood, forest”; Tolkien specified it was not used of wood a material (GL/31). This Gnomish word may be related to the root ᴱ√TUÐU “kindle”; see that entry for details. In Early Noldorin Word-lists it appeared as ᴱN. dron “wood” (PE13/142).