Eldamo : Quenya : tolma

Q. tolma n. “protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle” (Category: Furniture (other))

Q. tolma, n. “knob, (short rounded) handle, protuberance contrived to serve a purpose” (Category: Furniture (other)): ᴱQ. pulmë “lump, knob”

A noun in notes from the late 1960s glossed “a protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle” derived from √TOL “stick out” (VT47/28).

Conceptual Development: A similar word ᴱQ. tolos (toloss-) “knob, lump” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TOLO (QL/94).

Reference ✧ VT47/28 ✧ “protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle”

Element In

ᴺQ. !otolmië “keyboard”

Derivations

< √TOL “stick up or out, stand up (out and above neighboring things), raise the head” ✧ VT47/28

Phonetic Developments

√TOL > tolma

[tolma]

✧ VT47/28

ᴱQ. tolos (toloss-) n. “knob, lump” (Category: Furniture (other))

See Q. tolma for discussion.

References ✧ LT1A/Tol Eressëa; QL/94

Glosses

“knob, lump” ✧ LT1A/Tol Eressëa; QL/94

Variations

tolos ✧ LT1A/Tol Eressëa; QL/94

Inflections

toloss-

stem

✧ QL/94

Derivations

< ᴱ√TOLO “*stick up” ✧ LT1A/Tol Eressëa; QL/94
- < ᴱ√TOŁᵂO “[unglossed]” ✧ PE12/16

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TOLO > tolos

[toloss] > [tolos]

✧ QL/94