Eldamo : Quenya : lepetta

Q. lepetta n. “Gondorian hardwood” (Category: Tree (other))

Q. lepetta, n. “Gondorian hardwood” (Category: Tree (other))

Quenya name for the S. lebethron tree appearing in an undated note likely from the late 1960s, so called “probably because its leaves (like chestnut) [were] shaped like a fingered hand” (PE17/89). As such it was likely derived from √LEP, the basis for finger-words.

Reference ✧ PE17/89

Cognates

S. lebethron “Gondorian hardwood, *(lit.) finger tree” ✧ PE17/89

Derivations

< √LEP “pick up/out (with the fingers); finger”