alda

noun. tree, branch

aldar

collective name. Aldar

Name for the people of Galdor in an early name list (PE13/104). It seems to be simply the plural of alda “tree”.

aldare

noun. wood

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).

aldaron

masculine name. King of Forests

alanda

adjective. wide, broad

alda mavoite

chestnut

aldamo

noun. shoulder(s), back

halda

adjective. wide, broad

almo

noun. shoulder(s), back

The word ᴱQ. almo or aldamo “back, shoulders” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√ALA “spread”, and the longer form was an element in the name ᴱQ. Aikaldamor “Broad Back” (QL/29). This pair of words (along with deleted {alma}) reappeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, but there they had the gloss “shoulder” (PE16/144).

Neo-Quenya: The early root ᴱ√ALA “spread‽” was the basis for ᴱQ. alda “tree”, which in later writings was derived from ✶galadā. Thus ᴺQ. almo “shoulder” might be retained as a derivative of the later form of the root: √GAL. The sense of the later root was “grow (like plants), flourish” rather than “spread”, so this is a bit of a reach semantically, though not impossible since ✶galadā referred to broad, spreading trees as opposed to ✶ornē for tall trees (NM/349). I would use ᴺQ. almo only for “shoulder”; for “back” I recommend the neologism ᴺQ. catta.

en(we)

noun. name

landa

adjective. wide, broad

malin(d)

adjective. yellow

malina

adjective. yellow

mavoisi

noun. chestnut

orme

noun. tree

ormin

noun. top

orne

noun. tree