Quettaparma Quenyallo

tai (3) adv. “then”, also tá (which form may be preferred because tai has other meanings as well) (VT49:33)

tailë noun "lengthening, extension" (TAY)

#taima noun "lengthening, extension" in ómataima, q.v.

Taimavar masc. name "Shepherd of the Sky", Orion (LT1:268; Orion is called Telumehtar or Menelmacar in Tolkien's later Quenya)

Taimë, Taimië noun "the sky" (LT1:268; rather menel in LotR-style Quenya)

Taimondo, also Taimordo masc. name "Orion" (LT1:268; Orion is rather called Telumehtar or Menelmacar in Tolkien's later Quenya)

taina (1) adj. "lengthened, extended" (TAY), "stretched, elongated" (VT39:7), also noun "extension" in the compound ómataina, q.v.

#taina (2) noun “sign”, isolated from Tainacolli *”Sign-bearer” –MR:385

taita- vb. "to prolong" (TAY)

taitë adj. “of that sort” (VT49:11), *”such”

tál (tal-, as in "g.sg. talen"; in LotR-style Quenya this is rather the dative singular) noun "foot" (TAL, VT49:17). Also tala (VT49:42). Pl. táli “feet” (PE16:96); here Tolkien did not use tal- with a short a as the stem-form. VT43:16 mentions "an unpublished declension" of this word dating from ca. 1967; here the locative is said to appear as talassë and talsë. Cf. also talya “his foot”; see -ya #4. Early "Qenya" forms: tala "foot" (LT2:347) and dual talwi "the feet" (LT2:347); tálin "feet" (MC:216); instrumental talainen, talalínen (MC:213, 216, 220; this is "Qenya")

talaitë adj. “footed” (VT49:42); cf. attalaitë

talan (talam-, e.g. pl. talami) noun "floor, base, ground" (TALAM)

talantië vb. "he is fallen" (FS; see -ië #2 concerning the doubtful authority of this stative verb ending in LotR-style Quenya)

talas noun "sole" (LT2:347; Tolkien's later Quenya has tallunë)

talat- vb. a stem used for "slipping, sliding, falling down" (Letters:347), cf. atalta-, talta- and talantië

#talca ("k") noun "post, mark" isolated from lantalca "boundary post or mark" (VT42:28)

tallunë noun "sole of foot", stem probably talluni- given primitive form ¤talrunya (TALAM, RUN)

talma noun "base, foundation, root" (TALAM), also translated “bottom” in the expression “top to bottom”, see below.% Talmar Ambaren (place-name, *"Foundations of the World" - this is pre-classical "Qenya" with genitive in -en instead of -o as in LotR-style Quenya) (TALAM). Allative talmanna in the phrase telmello talmanna "from hood to base, top to bottom" (VT46:18; notice misreading "telmanna" in the Etymologies as printed in LR, entry TEL-, TELU-)