Q. tarma n. “pillar” (Category: Beam)
A word for “pillar” attested as an element in several words like Meneltarma “Pillar of Heaven” (SA/tar) and Tarmasundar “Roots of the Pillar” (UT/166). Christopher Tolkien suggested it was related to tar- “high” (SA/tar), but it could also be related to tar- “stand”.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. sūle “pillar, column” under the early root ᴱ√SULU (QL/87) and ᴱQ. taule “pillar” under the early root ᴱ√TAW̯A (QL/90). The word súle “column” also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/87), while the plural form Tauler appeared in the Official Name List (PE13/104), both documents also from the 1910s.
References ✧ SA/tar; UT/166
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| tar-¹ | “high” | ✧ SA/tar |
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ᴱQ. súle n. “column, pillar” (Category: Beam)
References ✧ PME/87; QL/87
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√SULU > sūle | [sūlē] > [sūle] | ✧ QL/87 |