Eldamo : Early Quenya : tilta

ᴱQ. tilta adj. “slanting” (Category: Slope, Cliff)

⚠️ᴱQ. tilta, adj. “slanting” (Category: Slope, Cliff): Q. talta “tottering, unsteady, [ᴱQ.] shaky, wobbling; [ᴹQ.] sloping, tilted, leaning, inclined, [ᴱQ.] slanting”

An adjective in the Early Noldorin Dictionary of the 1920s glossed “slanting”, derived from primitive ᴱ✶tḷtā́ (PE13/165). In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s it appeared as ᴱQ. tiltin “slanting” as a derivative of ᴱ√TḶTḶ (QL/80).

Reference ✧ PE13/165 ✧ “slanting”

Cognates

ᴱIlk. þold “slade, hillside” ✧ PE13/165
ᴱN. tleth “sloping, slanting, leaning” ✧ PE13/165
ᴱT. tolta “leaning, tottering” ✧ PE13/165

Derivations

< ᴱ✶tḷtā́ ✧ PE13/165
- < ᴱ√TḶTḶ “*slope”

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶tḷtā́ > tilta

[tḷtā] > [tḷta] > [tilta]

✧ PE13/165

ᴱQ. tiltin adj. “slanting” (Category: Slope, Cliff)

See ᴱQ. tilta for discussion.

References ✧ QL/93

Glosses

“slanting” ✧ QL/93

Variations

tiltin ✧ QL/93
tilt ✧ QL/93

Changes

tilt >> tiltin “slanting”; [erased form appearing above] ✧ QL/93

Elements

tilt-	“to make slope, incline (tr.), decline, shake at foundations, make totter”	✧ QL/93
#-ina	“adjectival suffix”	✧ QL/93 (#-in)