Q. telumë n. “roof, canopy; heaven, sky” (Category: Roof)
A word for “roof, canopy” appearing in the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60 derived from √TELU “roof in, put the crown on a building” (WJ/399, 411). Tolkien said it “was probably one of the earliest Quendian words for the heavens, the firmament, before the increase of their knowledge, and the invention of the Eldarin word Menel” (WJ/411). As such, it was only used for “heavens” metaphorically, in mythical names like Telumehtar “Warrior of the Sky”, the Quenya name of the Orion constellation (LotR/1113; WJ/411).
Conceptual Development: The first precursor to this word seems to be ᴱQ. telimbo “canopy, often used = sky” under the early root ᴱ√TELE “cover in” (QL/90). This became ᴱQ. telume “heavens, vault of heaven, firmament” in Qenya poems written around 1930 (MC/214, 221; PE16/142). In the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s it was ᴹQ. telume “vault, heaven” (PE21/16) and in The Etymologies of the 1930s it was glossed “dome, (especially) dome of heaven” under the root ᴹ√TEL(U) (Ety/TEL).
References ✧ WJ/399, 411
Glosses
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Element In
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| √tel-u > telume | [telume] | ✧ WJ/411 |
ᴹQ. telume n. “vault, dome (of heaven)” (Category: Roof)
References ✧ Ety/TEL; PE21/6-7, 9, 16, 38
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| telumi | accusative plural | ✧ PE21/7 |
| teluméli | accusative plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumir | dative plural | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumélir | dative plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telum(e)o | genitive | ✧ PE21/9 |
| telumeo | genitive | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumo | genitive | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumion | genitive plural | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumélion | genitive plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| teluménen | instrumental; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumémet | instrumental dual; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumínen | instrumental plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/9 |
| telumin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/7 |
| telumélin | nominative plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| teluméva | possessive; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/7 |
| teluminwa | possessive plural | ✧ PE21/7 |
Element In
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| ᴹ√TELU > telume | [telume] | ✧ Ety/TEL |
| ᴹ✶tel·u·mē > telume | [telumē] > [telume] | ✧ PE21/16 |
ᴱQ. telume n. “the heavens, (vault of) heaven, firmament” (Category: Sky, Heavens)
References ✧ MC/214, 221; PE16/62, 65, 72, 74-75, 142
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Inflections
| Tellumen | nominative | ✧ PE16/72 | |
| Telumen | nominative | “heaven” | ✧ PE16/62 |
| telume-n | nominative | “the vault of heaven” | ✧ PE16/75 |
| telumen | nominative | “vault of heaven” | ✧ MC/221 |
| telumen | nominative | ✧ PE16/74 |
Element In
ᴱQ. telimbo n. “canopy; sky” (Category: Roof)
References ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; QL/90
Glosses
Element In
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| ᴱ√TELE > telimbo | [telimbō] > [telimbo] | ✧ QL/90 |