ledhu

 az!S
/'le.ðu/

noun sand

plural ledhy
Neologism. Source: Celephinnel
✦✧✧✧✧ Dubious
mineral Swadesh 100 Swadesh 207 Leipzig–Jakarta Longman

IDS 1.215 Concepticon

Etymology

Root: √LIT "fine grit"
litmā › lidmā › lidma › ledma › leðma › leðm › leðv › leðw › leðu View phonetic development in Quettamorphosis

Elements

  • LIT grit root
  • -mā instrumental suffix

Cognates

quenya litse

Notes

This word is highly debated. I wouldn't claim that "lith" cannot mean both "ash" and "sand", as natural languages permit stranger polysemies than that. But I do think there's a reasonable linguistic case that this merger is unusually unsupported cross-linguistically and that distinguishing the two concepts would improve the lexicon with very little cost. I have used √LIT "grit" + ✶-mā "instrumental suffix", in analogy to √SAG "bitter, poison" + -mā = ✶sagmā "poison".