Select Elvish Words 7.412: Furniture (other)

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√SPAR² “strew, spread, ?scatter” with two unclear glosses, one of which might be “carpet” (EtyAC/SPAR²). Its other gloss is even less clear, but might be “string” or “stray” according to Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne.

A word for “ladder” in notes from the late 1960s derived from primitive ✶ranthlā based on √RATH “climb” (NM/363).

A noun in notes from the late 1960s glossed “a protuberance contrived to serve a purpose, knob, short rounded handle” derived from √TOL “stick out” (VT47/28).

Conceptual Development: A similar word ᴱQ. tolos (toloss-) “knob, lump” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TOLO (QL/94).

A word appearing in its plural form tyeller “grades” in The Lord of the Rings Appendix E as applied to the rows of the tengwar chart (LotR/1118). In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from The Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s Tolkien said its proper meaning was “grade, order” (PE17/122), but in notes from the late 1960s Tolkien said it meant “grade, also a step in a stairway, ladder”, and was derived from the root √KJEL “go down slowly, especially go down by degrees” (PE17/157).

Apparently a word for “stair”, attested only has an element in the name Dimrost “Rainy Stair” (S/220).

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “round knob, boss” under the root ᴹ√NDOL (Ety/NDOL).

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√SPAR² “strew, spread, ?scatter” with two unclear glosses, one of which might be “carpet” (EtyAC/SPAR²). Its other gloss is even less clear, but might be “string” or “stray” according to Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne.

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “hassock, footstool”, an elaboration of N. thâr “stiff grass” (Ety/STAR). Its derivation might have to do with the other meaning of English “hassock” referring to matted vegetation in swampy ground.