Eldamo : Early Quenya : tahóra

ᴱQ. tahóra adj. “lofty” (Category: High)

⚠️ᴱQ. tahóra, adj. “lofty” (Category: High): Q. tára¹ “lofty, tall, high”

A word appearing as tahōra, tayóra “lofty” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TAHA (QL/87). The word tahōra “lofty” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/88). The Qenya Phonology from this period also had {dahóra >>} tahóra “lofty” < ᴱ✶taχ-sṓđā́ “seated high” (PE12/21).

References ✧ PE12/21; PME/88; QL/87

Glosses

“lofty” ✧ PE12/21; PME/88 (tahōra); QL/87 (†tahōra); PE12/21 (dahóra)

Variations

tahóra ✧ PE12/21
dahóra ✧ PE12/21
tahōra ✧ PME/88; QL/87 (†tahōra)
tayóra ✧ QL/87

Changes

dahóra >> tahóra ✧ PE12/21

Derivations

< *ᴱ√DAHA “*high” ✧ QL/87 (TAHA)
< ᴱ✶taχsođa “seated high” ✧ PE12/21 (taχ-sṓđā́)
- < *ᴱ√DAHA “*high”

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶taχ-sṓđā́ > tahóra	[taxsōðā] > [taxsōða] > [taxsōza] > [taxsōra] > [tahōra]	✧ PE12/21
ᴱ√TAHA > †tahōra	[taxsōðā] > [taxsōða] > [taxsōza] > [taxsōra] > [tahōra]	✧ QL/87