Q. taurë n. “forest, (great) wood” (Category: Woods, Forest)
The common Quenya word for “forest”, derived from the root √TAW “wood” (PE17/115; VT39/7).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon Tolkien had ᴱQ. tauno “great forest” derived from the root ᴱ√TAVA “beam” (QL/90). It seems to have had the form taur- in the early name ᴱQ. Rúsitaurion “Son of the Weary Forest” (LT2/89), and the form was ᴱQ. taure in the Oilima Markirya and its various drafts (MC/213, 220; PE16/62 ff.). In Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s it briefly had the form taurie (PE16/138). In The Etymologies of the 1930s it had the form ᴹQ. taure “great wood, forest” as a derivative of the root ᴹ√TAWAR of similar meaning (Ety/TÁWAR). It was mentioned regularly in Tolkien’s later writings, generally with the gloss “forest”.
References ✧ Let/308; LotR/1131; MC/222; PE17/80, 82, 115; SA/taur; VT39/7
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| tauri | plural | “forests” | ✧ MC/222 |
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| ✶tau-rē > taure | [taurē] > [taure] | ✧ PE17/115 |
| √TAWA > taure | [taure] | ✧ VT39/7 |
ᴹQ. taure n. “great wood, forest” (Category: Woods, Forest)
References ✧ Ety/TÁWAR; PE22/116
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| tauresse | locative | “in forests” | ✧ PE22/116 |
| tauresse | locative | “in forest” | ✧ PE22/116 |
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| ᴹ✶tau̯rē > taure | [taurē] > [taure] | ✧ Ety/TÁWAR |
ᴱQ. taure n. “forest” (Category: Woods, Forest)
References ✧ LT2/89; MC/213, 220; PE16/62, 72, 74-75, 77, 80, 139
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| tauren | nominative | ✧ PE16/80; PE16/80 |
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ᴱQ. tauno n. “(great) forest” (Category: Woods, Forest)
References ✧ LT1A/Tavari; QL/90
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| ᴱ√TAVA > tauno | [taβnō] > [taβno] > [tauno] | ✧ QL/90 |