ᴹQ. mulo (mulu-) n. “dust” (Category: Dust, Powder)
A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s glossed “dust”, given as an example of declensions for nouns that in ancient times ended with short -ŭ: mulǔ- (PE21/10-11). It is probably a later iteration of ᴱQ. mul (muld-) “fine powder” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, a derivative of the early root ᴱ√MULU “grind (fine)” (QL/63). In notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien gave Q. mulë for “meal” = “*coarsely ground flour”, so it seems *√MUL “grind” either survived or was restored. For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is appropriate to use this word with the earlier sense “fine powder” as well.
References ✧ PE21/10-11
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Inflections
| mulo | accusative | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †mulwa | accusative | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †[mul]wion | accusative plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| mulor | dative | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †mulwen | dative | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †[mul]wir | dative plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| mulwo | genitive | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †[mul]wion | genitive plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †[mul]wínen | instrumental plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †mulo | nominative | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| mulon | nominative | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| mululin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| †mulwuin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| [mul]wíka | partitive-plural | ✧ PE21/11 | |
| mulu | stem | “dust” | ✧ PE21/10 |
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