12.352 Point
- ᴹQ. mente n. “point, end; ⚠️[ᴱQ.] peak, tip”
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A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “point, end” under the root ᴹ√MET “end” (Ety/MET).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. mente “peak, tip” under the early root ᴱ√MEME (QL/61).
- ᴹQ. nasse n. “spike, ⚠️thorn”
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A noun for “thorn, spike” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√NAS “point, sharp end” (Ety/NAS).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use this word for “spike”, but for “thorn” I would use other words like [ᴹQ.] ecco or necel.
- Q. nútil (nútill-) n. “under-point”
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In Tolkien’s notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s, he said tillë “tip, point” could also be used for fingers and toes, especially in compounds. When applied to toes it was generally elaborated to nútil “under-point”, as opposed to ortil “up-point” used of fingers (VT47/10).
- Q. ortil (ortill-) n. “up-point”
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In Tolkien’s notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s, he said tillë “tip, point” could also be used for fingers and toes, especially in compounds. When applied to fingers it was generally elaborated to ortil “up-point”, as opposed to nútil “under-point” used of toes (VT47/10).
- Q. tildë n. “fine sharp point, [ᴹQ.] spike; (mountain) horn, [ᴱQ.] tip, peak”
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This word is most notable as the final element of the name Taniquetil “High White Peak”, a derivation Tolkien used for most of his life. In the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60, Tolkien said tilde “is not a mountain peak, but a fine sharp point” (WJ/417). However, its primitive form tilde was glossed “peak” in notes from around 1965 (PE17/186), ᴹQ. tilde was glossed “spike, horn” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under from the root ᴹ√TIL “point, horn” (Ety/TIL; EtyAC/TIL), and ᴱQ. tilde “tip, peak” appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (PME/92), though it was merely “point” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√TILI² (QL/92).
Note that some of the above forms were presented incorrectly in their original publications. In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road the gloss of tilde was given as “point, horn” identical to its root (LR/393), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this “spike, horn” in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT46/19). The primitive form was given as tilte as originally published in Parma Eldalamberon #17 (PE17/186), but in a post to the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), Christopher Gilson corrected this to tilde: https://discord.com/channels/397489292185960468/1340803184934785045/1359191699523633296.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would assume tilde refers to a variety of pointy things of various sizes, including spikes, horns, and mountain peaks, especially if they are sharply pointed. In the case of mountains, I would further assume it refers to the tip or peak rather than the entire mountaion.
- Q. tillë n. “tip, point; [within compounds] finger, toe; [ᴱQ.] eyelash”
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A word in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s meaning “tip, point”, also used to refer to fingers and toes, especially in compounds (VT47/10). It was derived from the root √TIL. Drafts of these document instead had tile and tilma, of which Tolkien said:
The difference between tilma, tile and inga was that the former could point in any direction, but inga was only applied to shapes pointing upwards and meant “top”; and whereas til- was usually applied to ends notably thinner and sharper than the stem, inga referred primarily to position and could be used of tops relatively broad (VT47/28).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. {tilme >> tilla >>} tille “eyelash” under the early root ᴱ√TILI² (QL/92).
Neo-Quenya: Since tille referred to fingers and tilde to mountains, I would assume tille was more narrow and blunt, as opposed to tilde which was sharper and more angular. I would also use tille for “eyelash” as in Early Qenya, or less ambiguously *hentille.
- N. carag n. “spike, tooth of rock”
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A word for “spike, tooth of rock” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KARAK “sharp fang, spike, tooth” (Ety/KARAK).
- S. ceber n. “stake, spike; ⚠️[N.] ?limestone”
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A word for a “stake” or “spike” in the name Sarn Gebir “Stone-spikes” (RC/327; SA/sarn).
Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. ceber under the root ᴹ√KEPER “knob, head, top” >> “ridge” (Ety/KEPER). This word ceber had difficult-to-read glosses, possibly “limestone”, “linestone”, or “lonestone” (EtyAC/KEPER). This entry in The Etymologies was struck through.
- N. ment n. “point”
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A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “point” under the root ᴹ√MET “end” (Ety/MET).
- N. nass n. “point, (sharp) end; angle or corner”
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A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “point, (sharp) end; angle or corner” under the root ᴹ√NAS “point, sharp end” (Ety/NAS; EtyAC/NAS).
- S. till n. “point, spike, (sharp) horn, tine, ending”
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A word meaning “tine, spike, point” (PE17/36) or “spike, sharp horn” (RC/775) as an element in names like S. Celebdil “Silvertine”. In a discussion of the word niphredil, Tolkien said til or -il meant “point, ending” (PE17/55).
Conceptual Development: The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. till “horn” as the cognate of ᴹQ. tilde “point, horn” under the root ᴹ√TIL “point, horn” (Ety/TIL).
- S. trunc n. “great stake”
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A word appearing as {ON. trunko >>} S. trunc derived from primitive ✶turunku “great stake” in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s as an example of how unstressed initial syllables reduced to favored clusters in that language branch (PE21/80).