laru

noun. fat, grease

A word appearing as ᴱQ. laru “fat, grease” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LARA whose derivatives had to do with fat (QL/51). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s Tolkien instead had ᴱQ. lise {“greasy” >>} “grease”, with an accusative form lisya- indicating a stem lisy- (PE16/141). In Qenya Declensions also from the 1920s, its partitive form lisihta was glossed “of butter” (PE16/115).

Neo-Quenya: The root ᴹ√LAR “fat, grease” from The Etymologies of the 1930s seems to indicate that lisy- was a transient idea, so I would retain ᴺQ. laru for purposes of Neo-Quenya, but would use it only for “grease”. For “fat” I would instead use ᴹQ. larma (Ety/LAR). Note that Tolkien also had the adjective Q. (h)lúvo “greasy, fat” in notes from the early 1950s (PE21/82) but gave no noun form.

mange

noun. grease

A word for “grease” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived the early root ᴱ√MṆGṆ (QL/62), with syllabic ṇ becoming an [aŋ] which was the most common result in Early Qenya (PE12/10).

pyúva

adjective. fat

lhub

noun. fat

A noun appearing as ᴱN. lhub “fat” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/149). It was a later iteration G. lub “fat, fat flesh” in Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from primitive ᴱ✶lūpe (GL/55).

Neo-Sindarin: I think it is worth retaining these words for purposes of Neo-Sindarin as ᴺS. lûb “fat, (fat) flesh” from a Neo-Root ᴺ√LUP.

thalf

noun. grease

A noun appearing as ᴱN. thalf “grease” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, a derivative of primitive ᴱ✶stalqe (PE13/153). It is probably unrelated to similarly formed words like ᴱN. thala “valiant” and ᴱN. thalion “warrior hero” from the same document whose primitive forms begin with stalg- (PE13/153).

Neo-Sindarin: Since this word coexisted with ᴹ√STALAG derivatives in the 1920s, I would assume the same would be true in Tolkien’s later writing. Therefore I’d retain this word as ᴺS. thalph “grease” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, revised to fit the phonology of later Sindarin and derived from some otherwise-obscure triconsonantal root.

sṛkṛ

root. fat