Early Quenya
telumbe
noun. mushroom, (lit.) fairy-canopy
Cognates
- G. clum(mi) “mushroom”
Derivations
- ᴱ√TELE “cover in; close; finish” ✧ QL/090
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√TELE > telumbe [telumbē] > [telumbe] ✧ QL/090 Variations
- inwetelumbe ✧ QL/090
inwetelumbe
noun. mushroom, (lit.) fairy-canopy
A word appearing as ᴱQ. telumbe “mushroom” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the root ᴱ√TELE “cover in”, along with a longer variant inwetelumbe where the initial element was ᴱQ. inwe “fairy” (QL/42), hence more properly “fairy-canopy” (QL/90).
Neo-Quenya: Since √TELU meant “roof in” in Tolkien’s later writings, I would retain ᴺQ. telumbë “mushroom” for purposes of Neo-Quenya.