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Qenya 

tópa

noun. roof

A noun for “roof” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof” (Ety/TOP).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had a similar form ᴱQ. túpo “roof, cover, lid” under the early root ᴱ√TUPU (QL/95), with just the gloss “roof” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/95). It also had a couple of other unrelated words: ᴱQ. tel (teld-) “roof” and ᴱQ. telin (telimb-) “roof, covering” both derived from the early root ᴱ√TELE (QL/90).

Cognates

  • N. tobas “roofing, roof” ✧ Ety/TOP

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶tōp- “to roof” ✧ Ety/TOP
    • ᴹ√TOP “cover, roof, roof, cover” ✧ Ety/TOP

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶tōp- > tópa[tōpa]✧ Ety/TOP