Early Quenya
alu
noun. dressed leather
Derivations
- ᴱ√ALU “cleanse, dress” ✧ QL/030
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√ALU > alu [alū] > [alu] ✧ QL/030
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A word appearing as ᴱQ. alu “dressed leather” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ALU (QL/30).
Neo-Quenya: As there are no other suitable words for “leather” in later Quenya, I retain ᴺQ. alu for “(dressed) leather”, though its later etymology is unclear.