lerya- vb. "release, set free, let go"; negated avalerya- "bind, make fast, restrain, deprive of liberty" (VT41:5, 6)
Quenya
lerya-
verb. to release, set free, let go
lerya-
verb. release, set free, let go
leryalë
noun. release
fainu-
verb. release
fainu- vb. "release" (LT1:250). Rather lerya- or sen- in Tolkien's later Quenya.
A verb for “release, set free, let go” in notes from 1959-60, derived from the root √LER “free” (VT41/5; PE17/160).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. fainu- “release” under the early root ᴱ√FAẎA, also having to do with freedom (QL/37).