tha-

verb. to make, cause to be

tiqilin

noun. thaw, melting snow, slush

This word appeared as ᴱQ. tiqilin “a thaw, melting snow, slush” with stem form tiqilind- as an elaboration of ᴱQ. tiqile “melting, thawing, thaw” (QL/92).

Neo-Quenya: I think this word can be salvaged as ᴺQ. tiquilin, but I would revise its etymology to be a combination of ᴺQ. tiqu- “melt” and √LIN “pool”.

tiqi-

verb. to melt, thaw

tiqile

noun. melting, thawing, thaw

tiq-

verb. *to melt, thaw

maika

adjective. cruel

oa

noun. wool

qeleksima

adjective. corrupt, rotten

An adjective appearing as ᴱQ. qeleksima “corrupt, rotten” in the Qenya Lexicon probably based on qeletya “rot” (past tense qeleksine), both under the same early root ᴱ√QELE “perish, die, decay, fail” (QL/76).

Neo-Quenya: Since I retain ᴺQ. queletya- “to rot” for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would retain this adjective as well, but adapted as ᴺQ. queletima “corrupt, rotten” to better fit later Quenya phonology.

toa

noun. wool

tiq-

verb. to melt

kar-

verb. to make

togō

noun. wool

tou̯

noun. wool

faig

adjective. cruel

tô

noun. wool

naikea

adjective. cruel

nwalka

adjective. cruel

tó

noun. wool

A noun in The Etymologies of the late 1930s glossed “wool” and derived from the root ᴹ√TOW (Ety/TOW).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s had ᴱQ. oa “wool” under the early root ᴱ√OWO (QL/71). This became ᴱQ. toa in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, cognate to G. tô “wool” from primitive ᴱ✶tou̯ (GL/71). ᴹQ. tó “wool” first appeared in the Declension of Nouns (DN) from the early 1930s, but there it was an example of a monosyllable ō-noun derived from -ōʒǝ: ✱tōʒǝ (PE21/40). Compare this to ᴱN. tô “wool, fleece” from Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s derived from primitive ᴱ✶togō or ᴱ✶togo (PE13/154, 165).

Possible Etymology: The derivation ᴹ√TOW > ᴹQ. tó in The Etymologies seems to be the result of a sound change whereby stressed ou became ō (vs. unstressed ou becoming ū); this change was mentioned in both the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) from the 1940s (PE19/53) and the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the early 1950s (PE19/106). However, in Tolkien’s later writing, the usual development of ou was to ū even if the syllable was stressed: compare ✶lou > lū and ✶lounē̆ > lūn in notes from the late 1960s (PE17/137).

Neo-Quenya: I would retain tó “wool” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but would assume it is derived from either ✱tō or ✱togō, similar to its derivation from the earlier 1930s. This also makes it easier to retain ᴱN. tô “wool” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.