telume

noun. vault, dome (of heaven)

Cognates

• N. telu “dome, high roof” ✧ Ety/TEL

Derivations

• ᴹ√TEL(U) “*roof” ✧ Ety/TEL
• ᴹ✶telumē “vault, heaven” ✧ PE21/16
  • ᴹ√TEL(U) “*roof” ✧ PE21/16

Element in

• ᴹQ. Telumehtar “Warrior of the Sky” ✧ Ety/TEL

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√TELU > telume	[telume]	✧ Ety/TEL
ᴹ✶tel·u·mē > telume	[telumē] > [telume]	✧ PE21/16

tópa

noun. roof

A noun for “roof” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof” (Ety/TOP).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a similar form ᴱQ. túpo “roof, cover, lid” under the early root ᴱ√TUPU (QL/95), with just the gloss “roof” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/95). It also had a couple of other unrelated words: ᴱQ. tel (teld-) “roof” and ᴱQ. telin (telimb-) “roof, covering” both derived from the early root ᴱ√TELE (QL/90).

Cognates

• N. tobas “roofing, roof” ✧ Ety/TOP

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tōp- “to roof” ✧ Ety/TOP
  • ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof, roof, cover” ✧ Ety/TOP

Element in

• ᴺQ. hentópa “eyelid”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tōp- > tópa	[tōpa]	✧ Ety/TOP