tyel (1) noun "end", stem tyeld- as in the pl. form tyeldi (FS, KYEL; the pl. form tyeldi_ was misread as "tyelde" in the Etymologies as printed in LR; cf. VT45:25 for this correction)_. Cf. tyelma.
Quenya
tel
roof
tyel
end
telë-
finish, end
telë- vb. "finish, end" (intransitive), also "be the last thing or person in a series or sequence of events" (WJ:411; telë may be taken as the 3rd person aorist of a stem tel-, though it may also be interpreted as an example of an E-stem verb, as suggested by the final hyphen)soleted by # 1 above)
tyel-
end, cease
tyel- (2) vb. "end, cease" (KYEL)
telya-
finish, wind up, conclude
telya- vb. "finish, wind up, conclude" (transitive) (WJ:411)
tál
noun. foot, foot; [ᴹQ.] bottom, [ᴱQ.] lowest part
The Quenya word for “foot” derived from the root √TAL of similar meaning (PE19/103; VT49/17; Ety/TAL). Given its Sindarin cognate S. tâl (not ✱✱taul) its ancient stem form must have had a short vowel, with the long vowel in the uninflected form the result of the subjective noun case which lengthened the base vowel of monosyllables (PE21/76). Q. tál could also refer to the bottom of things (PE21/21, 76) analogous to English “foot of the mountain” and similar phrases.
Conceptual Development: The earliest iteration of this word was ᴱQ. tala “foot” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TALA “support” (QL/88), a form also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/88). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s it became ᴱQ. tál with plural tăli indicating an ancient short vowel (PE14/43, 76). In the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, ᴹQ. tāl had inflected forms with tal-, again indicating a short vowel in the stem (PE21/21), and likewise with the (1930s-style) genitive form talen in The Etymologies written around 1937 (Ety/TAL). Most of its later appearances also imply a short vowel in the stem, the main exception being the plural form táli in the 1950s version of the Nieninquë “poem”.
Cognates
- S. tâl “foot; [lower] end”
Derivations
Element in
- Q. attalya “biped, *(lit.) two-footed”
- ᴺQ. cantalya “four-legged, quadruped, (lit.) four-footed”
- Q. táli lantalasselingië “*with feet like the music of falling leaves” ✧ PE16/096
- ᴺQ. tallimë “ankle, (lit.) foot-link”
- Q. taltil “toe, *(lit.) foot-tip”
- Q. taltol “big toe”
- Q. Tyeleptalëa “Silver-footed”
Variations
- tal ✧ PE19/103
- tāl ✧ VT43/16; VT49/17
metta
end
metta noun "end"; Ambar-metta "world-end, the end of the world" (EO); mettarë *"end-day" = New Years' Eve in the Númenórean calendar and the Steward's Reckoning, not belonging to any month (Appendix D). The word Mettanyë, heading the final part of the poem The Trees of Kortirion, would seem to be related (LT1:43)
sac-
verb. close
tópa
roof
tópa noun "roof" (TOP)
tópa-
roof
tópa- vb. "roof" (TOP)
tel
noun. end
Derivations
- √TEL “close, end, complete, come to an end”
tel noun "roof" (LT1:268). Rather tópa in Tolkiens later Quenya.