Qenya
tol
noun. island
tol eressea
place name. Lonely Isle
tolto
cardinal. eight
tolu-
verb. to stand up, get up, leave one’s seat
tol-
verb. to stand
tó
noun. wool
eressea
adjective. lonely
tul-
verb. to come
tulkas
masculine name. Tulkas
yelme
noun. [unglossed]
laqe[t]-
verb. [unglossed]
assa
pronoun. [unglossed]
asse
pronoun. [unglossed]
asso
pronoun. [unglossed]
ente
pronoun. [unglossed]
ento
pronoun. [unglossed]
sarya
noun. [unglossed]
a
preposition. [unglossed]
alama
noun. [unglossed]
amaldume
noun. [unglossed]
anaristya
noun. [unglossed]
engwa
?. [unglossed]
ereáma
?. [unglossed]
es
[unglossed]
hyelma
?. [unglossed]
kaltua
?. [unglossed]
kanda
noun. [unglossed]
karpalimaite
noun. [unglossed]
lau(w)e
?. [unglossed]
mahtya
?. [unglossed]
mai(y)a
noun. [unglossed]
maldo
noun. [unglossed]
nahta
cardinal. eighteen
nandakka-
verb. [unglossed]
nerno
?. [unglossed]
niule
?. [unglossed]
olta-
verb. [unglossed]
rampa
?. [unglossed]
sahte
noun. [unglossed]
sisíria-
verb. [unglossed]
séra
?. [unglossed]
sóla
?. [unglossed]
tante
noun. [unglossed]
tatalta-
verb. [unglossed]
teuka
?. [unglossed]
thar-
verb. [unglossed]
thar-
verb. to stand
timpana
noun. [unglossed]
toina
adjective. [unglossed]
toróma
noun. [unglossed]
tyue
noun. [unglossed]
tyulma
noun. mast
varinye
noun. [unglossed]
éma
?. [unglossed]
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 1930s (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.