Gnomish
tol
noun. isle (with high steep coast)
Cognates
- Eq. tol “island, isle” ✧ LT1A/Tol Eressëa
Derivations
Element in
- G. Tol Erethrin “Lonely Isle” ✧ GL/71; LT1A/Tol Eressëa
- G. i·glin grandin a·Dol Erethrin Airi “*the fair towns of Holy Lonely Isle” ✧ PE13/093
- G. Tol Withernon (ar lim gardhin arthi) “*island of Withernon and many places besides” ✧ GL/17
Variations
- Tol ✧ GL/17; GL/71
mineth
noun. island
Derivations
- ᴱ√MINI “*tower” ✧ LT1A/Minethlos
Element in
- G. Minethlos “Argent Isle” ✧ GL/57; LT1A/Minethlos
A word in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “island” (GL/57), probably connected to the root ᴱ√MINI in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon as suggested by Christopher Tolkien, as it was the basis of other words for raised objects like ᴱQ. mindon “turret” (LT1A/Minethlos; QL/061).