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
aldar
collective name. Aldar
alda
noun. tree, branch
aldaron
masculine name. King of Forests
aldare
noun. wood
en(we)
noun. name
orme
noun. tree
orne
noun. tree
Name for the people of Galdor in an early name list (PE13/104). It seems to be simply the plural of alda “tree”.