^* Sindarin alph, a swan, plural eilph; Quenya alqua,as in Alqualondë. The Telerin branch of Eldarin shifted original kw to p (but original p remained unshifted). The much-changed Sindarin of Middle-earth turned the stops to spirants after l and r. Thus original alkwa became alpa in Telerin, and alf (transcribed alph) in Sindarin.