Qenya
tulma
noun. event
kanya ére kata tulma alwara
to be wise after the event is useless
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A noun for “event” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/124). It is apparently a combination of ᴹ√TUL “come” with the instrumental suffix ᴹ✶-mā, so perhaps originally meaning “✱a thing that is come”.