N. telu n. “dome, high roof” (Category: Roof)
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “dome, high roof” under the root ᴹ√TEL(U), cognate to ᴹQ. telume “vault, dome (of heaven)” (Ety/TEL).
Conceptual Development: G. telm or telum was glossed “roof; sky” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, both derivatives of the root ᴱ√tel- “cover in; close; finish” (GL/70). ᴱN. telum “sky” appeared again in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/153), but by The Etymologies of the 1930s N. telu meant only “dome, high roof” (Ety/TEL), and its connection to “sky” seems to have been abandoned in Noldorin/Sindarin, though retained in Quenya telumë.
References ✧ Ety/TEL
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| #delu | soft-mutation; t-mutation | ✧ Ety/TEL |
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| ᴹ√TELU > telu | [telume] > [telume] > [telum] > [teluv] > [telu] | ✧ Ety/TEL |
ᴱN. telum n. “sky” (Category: Sky, Heavens)
Reference ✧ PE13/153 ✧ “sky”
G. telm n. “roof; sky” (Category: Roof)
References ✧ GL/70; LT1A/Teleri
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