A word for “street” appearing in Tolkien’s writings of the 1910s-40s. ᴱQ. malle “street” first appeared [albiet marked with “?”] in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√MALA “crush, squeeze, pulp” (QL/58), and in early names from this period such as ᴱQ. Olóre Malle “Path of Dreams” (LT1/18) and ᴱQ. Kúne Malle “Road of Arches” (PE13/105). ᴱQ. malle “street” reappeared in several charts of Qenya Declensions from the 1920s (PE16/112-115) and in contemporaneous Early Qenya Word-lists (PE16/143).
ᴹQ. malle was more fully defined as “made road, stone-road, street” in Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/24) and also appeared in some contemporaneous declension charts (PE21/44-45). In The Etymologies from around 1397, ᴹQ. malle “street” was derived from the root ᴹ√MBAL (Ety/MBAL). This word also appeared with the gloss “road” in various iterations of the ᴹQ. Lament of Atalante from the 1930s and 40s, in the phrases ᴹQ. malle téna lende númenna “a road [once] went straight westward” and ᴹQ. ilya sí maller raikar “now all roads (are) bent” (LR/47, 56; SD/310). There is no sign of this word in the 1950s and 60s, but that could be a coincidence.
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use this word for constructed roads, particularly those that are paved or are city streets.
A noun glossed “food, meal” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with a stem form matt- (PE21/27), clearly based on ᴹ√MAT “eat”. Tolkien specified that as the suffix -mat, it was the basis of names for meals (PE21/32). The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s also had ᴱQ. mat (matt-) “meal, meal time” under the early root ᴱ√MATA “eat” (QL/59).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use this word only for “meal”, and would instead use Q. matta for “food”.