taure

noun. forest

taurë

(great) wood, forest

taurë noun "(great) wood, forest" (SA:taur, Letters:308, TÁWAR. VT39:7), pl. tauri in Markirya

taurë

noun. forest, (great) wood

The common Quenya word for “forest”, derived from the root √TAW “wood” (PE17/115; VT39/7).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon Tolkien had ᴱQ. tauno “great forest” derived from the root ᴱ√TAVA “beam” (QL/90). It seems to have had the form taur- in the early name ᴱQ. Rúsitaurion “Son of the Weary Forest” (LT2/89), and the form was ᴱQ. taure in the Oilima Markirya and its various drafts (MC/213, 220; PE16/62 ff.). In Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s it briefly had the form taurie (PE16/138). In The Etymologies of the 1930s it had the form ᴹQ. taure “great wood, forest” as a derivative of the root ᴹ√TAWAR of similar meaning (Ety/TÁWAR). It was mentioned regularly in Tolkien’s later writings, generally with the gloss “forest”.

Cognates

• S. taur “forest, wood, forest, wood, [N.] great wood, [G.] dense wood” ✧ PE17/082; PE17/115; SA/taur

Derivations

• ✶taurē “forest” ✧ PE17/115
  • √TAW “wood” ✧ PE17/115
• √TAW “wood” ✧ VT39/07

Element in

• ᴺQ. rostaurë “rainforest”
• Q. taurëa “forested”
• Q. Taurelilómëa “Forestmanyshadowed” ✧ Let/308; LotR/1131
• Q. Tauremorna “Black Forest” ✧ PE17/082
• Q. Tauremornalómë “*Forest (of) Black Night”
• Q. Tumbaletaurëa “Deepvalleyforested” ✧ Let/308
• Q. ve tauri lillassië “like leaves of forests” ✧ MC/222

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶tau-rē > taure	[taurē] > [taure]	✧ PE17/115
√TAWA > taure	[taure]	✧ VT39/07

Variations

• taure ✧ Let/308; PE17/080; PE17/082; PE17/115; VT39/07

tarwë

cross, crucifix

tarwë noun "cross, Crucifix" (QL:89)

tauno

forest

tauno noun "forest" (LT1:267; in Tolkien's later Quenya taurë)

málos

forest

málos noun "forest" (LT2:342 rather taurë in Tolkien's later Quenya)

tarwë

noun. cross, crucifix

@@@ later etymology unclear

Cognates

• ᴺS. taru “cross, *crucifix; crossing”

Element in

• ᴺQ. tarwesta- “to crucify”