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S. tâl n. “foot; [lower] end” (Category: Foot)

S. tâl, n. “foot; [lower] end” (Category: Foot)
G. fod “end, butt, bottom”
G. hôm “ground, base, bottom, seabed”
G. taltha “foot (of things), base, pedestal, pediment”

The Sindarin word for “foot”, derived from the root √TAL of similar meaning (SA/celeb; Ety/TAL). As an element in compounds, it could also refer to the “end” of something, especially the lower end, as in Ramdal “Wall’s End” (S/122; Ety/TAL). This word probably may be used metaphorically for the “foot” of things like mountains and pedestals.

Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to G. tâl (tald-) “foot” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/68), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√TALA “support” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT2A/Talceleb). Tolkien experimented with some variant forms like ᴱN. tail or taul in documents from the 1920s (PE13/123, 153), but N. tâl “foot” was restored in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√TAL “foot” (Ety/TAL) and Tolkien seems to have stuck with that form thereafter.

References ✧ PE23/136; SA/celeb, tal; UT/313

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dal soft-mutation; t-mutation   ✧ SA/celeb; SA/tal
#dal soft-mutation; t-mutation   ✧ UT/313
dâl soft-mutation; t-mutation “foot” ✧ PE23/136

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N. tâl n. “foot; (lower) end” (Category: Foot)

See S. tâl for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/TAL; PE22/67; RS/351; TAI/150

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#thal liquid-mutation “foot” ✧ RS/351
ithail nasal-mutation plural; t-mutation “the feet” ✧ PE22/67
teil plural   ✧ Ety/TAL
teil plural “foot” ✧ TAI/150

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ᴹ√TAL > tâl [tal] > [tāl] ✧ Ety/TAL
ᴹ√TAL > teil [tali] > [teli] > [teil] ✧ Ety/TAL

ᴱN. taul n. “foot” (Category: Foot)

See S. tâl for discussion.

References ✧ PE13/123, 153

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tailt plural “feet” ✧ PE13/123
toil plural   ✧ PE13/153

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G. tâl (tald-) n. “foot” (Category: Foot)

See S. tâl for discussion.

References ✧ GG/10-11, 15; GL/68; LT2A/Talceleb

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godalwi dual   ✧ GG/10
talwi dual “(a pair of) feet, the feet of one person” ✧ GG/10
talwi dual “feet” ✧ GG/15
talin plural “feet” ✧ GG/15
dalwint soft-mutation genitive dual; t-mutation “feet” ✧ GG/11
tald- stem   ✧ GL/68

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