A noun appearing as S. laudh “gluttonous eating” in the Outline of Phonology (OP2) from the 1950s from primitive {✶labdā >>} ✶labdē (PE19/91-92 note #110). It also appeared as N. lauð in Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) from the 1930s with the glosses “licking up (food or drink), gluttonous eating”, the first of these presumably the original (archaic?) meaning (PE19/45). In OP2, the section where it appeared was marked through when Tolkien revised the Quenya phonetic developments, but the Sindarin phonetic developments remain sound, so I’d retain ᴺS. laudh “gluttonous eating” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin.
Sindarin
laudh
noun. licking up
laudh
noun. gluttonous eating
Cognates
- Q. laptë “gluttonous eating” ✧ PE19/092
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶labdē > lauð [labdē] > [laudē] > [laude] > [lauðe] > [lauð] ✧ PE19/092 Variations
- lauð ✧ PE19/092 (lauð)
laudh
noun. gluttonous eating, [N.] †licking up (food or drink)
Cognates
- ᴺQ. laptë “gluttonous eating, [ᴹQ.] †licking up (food or drink)”
Derivations
Dor. licking up, gluttonous eating