belu-

verb. to unroll, unfurl (intransitively), belly (of sails), swell

A verb appearing as belu- or belwa- in the Gnomish Lexicon glossed “unroll, unfurl (intransitively), belly (of sails), swell” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/22), clearly based on the early root ᴱ√VELU (or ✱ᴱ√BELU) “unroll” (QL/100).

@@@ maybe salvage belwa-?

belin

adjective. expanded, unrolled, unfurled, set (of sails)

An adjective appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as G. {belum >>} belin “expanded, unrolled, unfurled, set (of sails)”, based on the verb G. belu- “unroll, unfurl” (GL/22).

Neo-Sindarin: Since I retain the Neo-Root ᴺ√BELU “unroll, ✱unfurl” to serve as the basis for “sail” words, I would retain and adapt this Gnomish adjective as ᴺS. belen “expanded, unrolled, unfurled, set (of sails)”.

belwa-

verb. to unroll, unfurl (intransitively), belly (of sails), swell

velu

root. unroll

This root appeared as ᴱ√VELU “unroll” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. velunte “sail” and ᴱQ. velupantie “revelation” (QL/100). It had several Gnomish derivatives of similar meaning (GL/22), all beginning with “b” since initial voiced spirants became stops in Gnomish.

Neo-Eldarin: I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√BELU to salvage these early words. However, in The Etymologies from the 1930s, Tolkien glossed the Quenya verb ᴹQ. panta- as “to unfurl, spread out, open”, so it is possible the sense “unfurl” moved to the root ᴹ√PAT (unglossed), though most of this root’s other derivatives are closer in sense to “open” (Ety/PAT).