tol- (i dôl, i thelir). The present tense tôl is attested (WJ:254). MAKE COME, see FETCH
Sindarin
tol
noun. island, (steep) isle rising with sheer sides from the sea or from a river
tolo
verb. come!
tol(l)
noun. island, (high steep-sided) isle
Cognates
- Q. tollë “island, (steep) isle” ✧ SA/tol; VT47/13
Derivations
- √TOL “stick up or out, stand up (out and above neighboring things), raise the head” ✧ SA/tol; VT47/10
Element in
- ᴺS. perthol “peninsula”
- S. Tol Brandir “Tindrock, (lit.) Isle of the Great Steeples” ✧ RC/333; VT47/13; VT47/28
- S. Tol Falas “*Island of the Shore”
- S. Tol Galen “Green Isle” ✧ SA/tol
- S. Tol-in-Gaurhoth “Isle of Werewolves” ✧ UT/054
- S. Tol Morwen “*Island of Morwen”
- S. Tol Sirion “*Island of Sirion”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √TOL > Tol [tol] ✧ VT47/10 Variations
- Tol ✧ RC/333; RC/333; UT/054; VT47/13; VT47/28
- tol ✧ SA/tol
tol
come
tol
come
(i dôl, i thelir). The present tense tôl is attested (WJ:254).
toll
island
toll (i doll, o tholl, construct tol), pl. tyll (i thyll)
toll
island
(i doll, o tholl, construct tol), pl. tyll (i thyll)
The most common Sindarin word for “island”, strictly speaking only for islands with sheer sides as opposed to [N.] caer for flat islands. It was a derivative of the root √TOL “stick up or out, stand up (out and above neighboring things)” (VT47/10-11). In most names it appears as tol, probably as a semi-prefix, but as an independent word it is probably toll (Ety/TOL), especially given its Quenya cognate Q. tollë (VT47/13, 28).
Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s where it appeared as G. tol “an isle (with high steep coasts)” (GL/71), probably already a derivative of the root ᴱ√TOLO as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Tol Eressëa; QL/94). In Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s it appeared as ᴱN. dol “island” (PE13/142), but that seems to have been a transient idea since it was N. toll “island” in The Etymologies of the 1930, again derived from the root ᴹ√TOL, more specifically from the primitive form ᴹ✶tollo (Ety/TOL²). The form tol appeared regularly in Tolkien’s later writings, and in several places he emphasized that it was for islands with steep sides (RC/333; VT47/28).