Early Quenya
tilt-
verb. to make slope, incline (tr.), decline, shake at foundations, make totter
tilta
adjective. slanting
tiltin
adjective. slanting
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An adjective in the Early Noldorin Dictionary of the 1920s glossed “slanting”, derived from primitive ᴱ✶tḷtā́ (PE13/165). In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s it appeared as ᴱQ. tiltin “slanting” as a derivative of ᴱ√TḶTḶ (QL/80).