Q. luppo (luppu-) n. “clumsy piece or lump” (Category: Mound, Pile)
A noun appearing in both the Outline of Phonetic Development from the 1940s (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.
Reference ✧ PE19/92 ✧ “a clumsy piece or lump”
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Phonetic Developments
✶lubbŭ > luppo | [lubbu] > [lubbo] > [luppo] | ✧ PE19/92 |