Eldamo : Early Quenya : torme

ᴱQ. torme n. “mountain (peak)” (Category: Peak, Summit)

⚠️ᴱQ. tormë, n. “mountain (peak)” (Category: Peak, Summit): ᴹQ. aicassë “mountain peak”; ᴹQ. antaro “high mountain, peak, *(lit.) great height”

A word glossed “mountain peak” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants (probably ancient forms) tayorme, tahorme, taorme, given as a derivative of ᴱ√TAHA (QL/87). It appeared as tahorme, taorme, torme “mountain” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/86).

References ✧ PME/88; QL/87

Glosses

“mountain” ✧ PME/88
“mountain peak” ✧ QL/87 (tayorme)

Variations

torme ✧ PME/88; QL/87
tahorme ✧ PME/88
taorme ✧ PME/88
tayorme ✧ QL/87

Cognates

G. dorm “summit”

Derivations

< *ᴱ√DAHA “*high” ✧ QL/87 (TAʕA); QL/87 (TAHA)
- < taorme < tahorme < TAHA ✧ QL/87

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TAʕA > tayorme	[daðʲormē] > [daðʲorme] > [dajorme] > [tajorme]	✧ QL/87
ᴱ√TAHA > tahorme > taorme > torme	[daxormē] > [daxorme] > [daɣorme] > [daorme] > [dōrme] > [dorme] > [torme]	✧ QL/87