cua, see cucua
Quenya
cucua
dove
cua
cua
Sindarin
cugu
dove
cugu (i gugu, o chugu), pl. cygy (i chygy)
cugu
dove
(i gugu, o chugu), pl. cygy (i chygy)
Noldorin
cugu
noun. dove
cugu
noun. dove
A word for “dove” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from ᴹ✶kukūwā based on a reduplicated form of the root ᴹ√KŪ (Ety/KŪ). It replaced a deleted for cû from primitive ᴹ✶kūwā (EtyAC/KŪ).
Changes
cû→ cugu “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪCognates
- ᴹQ. kukua “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources On. kukua > cugu [kukua] > [kukua] > [kuku] > [kugu] ✧ Ety/KŪ Variations
- cû ✧ EtyAC/KŪ (
cû)
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Qenya
kukua
noun. dove
A word for “dove” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from ᴹ✶kukūwā based on a reduplicated form of the root ᴹ√KŪ (Ety/KŪ). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien gave this as a pair of words ku, kua, but in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne clarified that it was a single word kukua replacing a deleted form {<< kua} (EtyAC/KŪ).
Changes
kua→ kukua “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪCognates
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺQ. cucuollë “turtledove”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶kukūwā > kukua [kukūwā] > [kukuwā] > [kukua] ✧ Ety/KŪ Variations
- ku/kua ✧ EtyAC/KŪ
- kua ✧ EtyAC/KŪ (
kua)
Old Noldorin
kukua
noun. dove
Changes
kua→ kukua “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪCognates
- ᴹQ. kukua “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ
Derivations
Derivatives
- N. cugu “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶kukūwā > kukua [kukūwā] > [kukūwa] > [kukua] ✧ Ety/KŪ Variations
- ku/kua ✧ EtyAC/KŪ
- kua ✧ EtyAC/KŪ (
kua)
Middle Primitive Elvish
kukūwā
noun. dove
Changes
kūwā→ kukūwā “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪDerivations
- ᴹ√KŪ “*coo” ✧ Ety/KŪ
Derivatives
Variations
- kūwā ✧ EtyAC/KŪ (
kūwā)
cucua ("k")noun "dove" (KŪ; in the Etymologies as printed in LR, Tolkien's manuscript was misread as two distinct words **cu and **cua; see VT45:24. According to the same source, an ephemeral word for "dove" was indeed cua, but Tolkien changed it to cucua.)