adj. wood as material. Q. toina. >> taw
Sindarin
tawen
adjective. wood (of material), ?wooden (of make), wood (of material), wooden (of make)
Cognates
- Q. toina “wood, wood, *wooden, made of wood” ✧ PE17/115
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶tawĭnā > tawen [tawinā] > [tawina] > [tawena] > [tawen] ✧ PE17/115 ✶tawĭnā > tewin [tawini] > [tewini] > [tewin] ✧ PE17/115
tawen
adjective. wood as material
tewin
adjective. wood as material
A word in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968, apparently an adjectival form of taw “wood as material” (PE17/115). Its gloss is unclear but may be “wood (of material)” or “wooden (of make)” as suggested by Christopher Gilson. It appeared beside a form tewin, either a plural or (less likely) a variant form.
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s the form was N. tawaren “wooden” (pl. tewerin), an adjectival form of longer N. tawar (Ety/TÁWAR).