A word glossed “wood” in the margins of Tolkien’s notes on The Creatures of the Earth from the 1910s, clearly an elaboration ᴱQ. alda “tree” as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE14/7).
Early Quenya
pole
noun. oats, grain (unground kernels of oats, wheat, etc.); flour
tulwe
noun. tall thin pillar, standard, pole; banner
aldare
noun. wood
taule
noun. pillar
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “tall thin pillar, standard, pole; banner”, under the early root ᴱ√TULU which originally meant “uphold, support, bear, carry” (QL/95).