tolyo

noun. sticker-up

A nursery name for the middle finger glossed “sticker-up” in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from 1968 as an elaboration of the root √TOL “stick up” (VT47/10). The word also appeared as tolyo this document’s drafts (VT47/26-28), but in a slightly later version it was tollo (VT48/6).

tolyo

sticker-up

tolyo noun "sticker-up", "prominent one", term used in children's play for "middle finger" or "middle toe" (VT47:10, VT48:4). The form tollo in VT48:6, 16 would seem to be a variant.

tollo

tollo

tollo, variant of tolyo, q.v. (VT48:6, 16)

tollo

noun. sticker-up