Q. toina adj. “wood” (Category: Wood, Timber)
A word glossed “wood” appearing in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 derived from primitive ✶tawĭnā (PE17/115) and hence probably an adjective “*wooden, (made) of wood” as suggested by Helge Fauskanger (QQ/toina).
Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien instead had ᴹQ. taurina “of wood”, an adjectival form of ᴹQ. tavar “wood (material)” (Ety/TÁWAR). The word ᴹQ. toina appeared in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1940s, but was unglossed, so whether it meant “*wooden” is unclear.
Reference ✧ PE17/115 ✧ “wood”
Elements
| -ina | “adjective suffix; passive participle” |
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ✶tawĭnā > toina | [tawinā] > [toinā] > [toina] | ✧ PE17/115 |