luppo

noun. clumsy piece or lump

clumsy piece or lump

luppo

noun. clumsy piece or lump

A noun appearing in both the Outline of Phonetic Development from the 1930s (OP1: PE19/45) and the Outline of Phonology from the 1950s (OP2: PE19/92) with the gloss “a clumsy piece or lump” derived from primitive ✶lubbu and illustrating how combinations of voiced stops were unvoiced in (Ancient) Quenya: bb > pp.

Derivations

• ✶lubbu “a clumsy piece or lump” ✧ PE19/092
  • √LUB “lump”

Element in

• ᴺQ. sauluppo “cancer (disease)”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶lubbŭ > luppo	[lubbu] > [lubbo] > [luppo]	✧ PE19/092