Eldamo : Quenya : tolyo

Q. tolyo n. “sticker-up” (Category: Finger)

Q. tolyo, n. “sticker-up” (Category: Finger)

A nursery name for the middle finger glossed “sticker-up” in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from 1968 as an elaboration of the root √TOL “stick up” (VT47/10). The word also appeared as tolyo in this document’s drafts (VT47/26-28), but in a slightly later version it was tollo (VT48/6).

References ✧ VT47/10-11, 16, 26, 28, 32-33; VT48/6

Glosses

“sticker-out” ✧ VT47/26 (tolyon)
“sticker-up” ✧ VT47/10

Variations

tolyo ✧ VT47/10; VT47/11; VT47/16; VT47/28; VT47/32; VT47/33
tolyon ✧ VT47/26
tollo ✧ VT48/6

tolyo goes with atyo ✧ VT47/32
tolyo was an abbreviation of √tolod- ✧ VT47/32

Changes

tolyon “sticker-out” >> tolyo “sticker-up” ✧ VT47/26

Cognates

S. toleg “*sticker-up” ✧ VT48/6 (tolch)
T. tollë “*sticker-up” ✧ VT48/6
T. tolot “eight” ✧ VT48/6 (*tolot)

Derivations

< √TOL “stick up or out, stand up (out and above neighboring things), raise the head” ✧ VT47/10; VT47/11; VT47/16; VT47/28
< √TOLOD “eight” ✧ VT47/33 (tolot)

Phonetic Developments

√TOL > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/10
√TOL > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/11
√tol > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/16
√TOL > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/28
√tolot > tolyo	[toljo]	✧ VT47/33