Eldamo : Middle Quenya : tavar

ᴹQ. tavar n. “wood (material)” (Category: Wood, Timber)

⚠️ᴹQ. tavar, n. “wood (material)” (Category: Wood, Timber): Q. töa “wood (as material)”

See Q. töa for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/TÁWAR ✧ “wood (material)”

Element In

ᴹQ. taurina “of wood”
ᴹQ. tavaril “dryad, spirit of woods (f.)”
ᴹQ. tavaron “dryad, spirit of woods (m.)”
ᴺQ. !mortavar “ebony, ⚠️ivory”

Cognates

Ilk. taur “wood (place and material), forest” ✧ Ety/TÁWAR
N. tawar “wood (material), *forest” ✧ Ety/TÁWAR

Derivations

< ᴹ✶tawar “wood (material)” ✧ Ety/TÁWAR
- < ᴹ√TAWAR “wood, forest” ✧ Ety/TÁWAR (TÁWAR)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶tawar > tavar

[tawar] > [taβar] > [tavar]

✧ Ety/TÁWAR

ᴱQ. aldare n. “wood” (Category: Wood, Timber)

A word glossed “wood” in the margins of Tolkien’s notes on The Creatures of the Earth from the 1910s, clearly an elaboration ᴱQ. alda “tree” as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE14/7).

Reference ✧ PE14/7 ✧ “wood”

aldare “wood” written in the margin near alandri “Earth [Fay]” ✧ PE14/7

Elements

alda	“tree, branch”
#-re	“noun suffix”

Derivations

< ᴱ√ALA² “spread‽”