Eldamo : Early Quenya : taime

ᴱQ. taime n. “sky” (Category: Sky, Heavens)

⚠️ᴱQ. taimë, n. “sky” (Category: Sky, Heavens): Q. vilya “air, sky”; ᴹQ. hellë¹ “sky”

A word for “the sky” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with variants Taime and Taimie from the early root ᴱ√TAHA [DAHA] (QL/87). ᴱQ. tea “sky” from Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s is probably related, as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE16/142).

References ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; PE16/142; QL/88

Glosses

“sky” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; LT1A/Telimektar (Taimië); PE16/142 (tea); QL/88

Variations

Taimë ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; QL/88
Taimië ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; QL/88
tea ✧ PE16/142

Element In

ᴱQ. Taimoinen “Wednesday”
ᴱQ. Taimordo “*Sky-warrior” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; QL/88 (Taimondo)
ᴱQ. Taimósi
ᴱQ. Taitelon “Vault of Heaven”
ᴱQ. †Taimavar “Shepherd of the Sky” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar (†Taimavar)

Cognates

G. dai¹ “sky” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar
G. daimoth “heaven” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar

Derivations

< *ᴱ√DAHA “*high” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar (TAHA); QL/87 (TAHA)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TAHA > Taime

[taximē] > [taxime] > [taɣime] > [taime]

✧ QL/88