Eldamo : Quenya : talca

Q. #talca n. “post, mark” (Category: Beam)

Q. #talca, n. “post, mark” (Category: Beam)

A word attested only as an element in lantalka “boundary post or mark” in notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the end of the 1960s (VT42/8). Carl Hostetter suggested it and its Sindarin cognate S. tagol could be derived from primitive *✶tak(a)la based on the root √TAK “fix, make fast” (VT42/28).

Reference ✧ VT42/28 ✧ #talka “post, mark”

Element In

Q. lantalca “boundary post or mark” ✧ VT42/8 (lantalka)

Cognates

S. #tagol “post, mark” ✧ VT42/8 (#dagol)

Derivations

< !✶takala “post, mark” ✧ VT42/28 (!takala)
- < √TAK “fasten, fix”

Phonetic Developments

!✶takala > #talka

[takala] > [takla] > [talka]

✧ VT42/28