clumsy piece or lump
Quenya
luppo
noun. clumsy piece or lump
luppo
noun. clumsy piece or lump
lupsë
noun. nugget, (small) chunk, clump, tidbit
Primitive elvish
lup
root. hump, lump, fat
Sindarin
loph
noun. nugget, (small) chunk, clump, tidbit
A neologism coined by Röandil on 2023-04-07 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) derived from √LUB “lump” + diminutive ✶-si: lub-si > ancient ✶lupse, hence originally “little lump”. This Neo-Sindarin word assumes that ancient ps became ph, similar to how ancient ks became ch. It might instead by ✱laus.
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Early Primitive Elvish
lūpe
noun. fat, fat flesh
Qenya
luppo
noun. clumsy piece or lump
Gnomish
lub
noun. fat, fat flesh
A noun appearing in both the Outline of Phonetic Development from the 1940s (OP1: PE19/45) and the Outline of Phonology from the 1950s (OP2: PE19/92) with the gloss “a clumsy piece or lump” derived from primitive ✶lubbu and illustrating how combinations of voiced stops were unvoiced in (Ancient) Quenya: bb > pp.