Early Quenya
palo
noun. plane surface, plain, the flat
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
palo
noun. plane surface, plain, the flat
A word appearing as ᴱQ. palo (palu-) in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, glossed “plane surface, plain, the flat” and based on the early root ᴱ√PALA having to do with flat things (QL/71).
Neo-Quenya: Since √PAL continued to be used for wide and flat things in Tolkien’s later writing, I would retain ᴺQ. palo for purposes of Neo-Quenya. However, I would use it for abstractions like “plane (surface), the flat, ✱flatness” and not for a regional “plain” for which I would use later words like ᴹQ. landa or ᴹQ. palar. I would further assume that palo can be used for a flat plane in any direction, not just horizontal.