cuivië

noun. life

cuivië

awakening

cuivië noun "awakening" (early "Qenya" coivië, q.v., but this word Tolkien later used = *"life"). In Cuiviénen, "Water of Awakening" (SA:cuivië, SA:nen, KUY; spelt with a k_ in the Etymologies). Somewhat surprisingly, cuivië is used to mean "life" in cuivie-lancassë ("k"), literally 'on the brink of life' ("of a perilous situation in which one is likely to fall into death") (VT42:8)_ The form coivië is used for "life" elsewhere.

cuivië

noun. awakening

A word for “awakening”, most notably an element in the word Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” (S/48). It was derived from the root √KUY (Ety/KUY). In a few places it appeared as kuive instead (PE17/68; Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: The earliest form for “Waters of Awakening” was ᴱQ. Koivie-néni (LT1/85), and ᴱQ. koivie was glossed as “awakening” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/48). It was glossed “liveliness” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, however, and ᴱQ. qîvie was “awakening” (GL/29).

Element in

• Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië
• Q. Cuivienyarna “Legend of the Awakening [of the Quendi]” ✧ WJ/420

Elements

Word	Gloss
KUY	“awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”
-vë	“abstract noun, adverb”

Variations

• kuive ✧ PE17/068
• cuivië ✧ SA/cuivië
• Cuivie ✧ WJ/420

cuivë

awakening

cuivë ("k")noun "awakening" (KUY)

cuivë

noun. awakening

coivië

life

coivië _("k")_noun "life" (coivierya, *"his/her life", VT49:41, 42). In early material, the word is glossed "awakening" instead (LT1:257; in LotR-style Quenya cuivië, as in Cuiviénen)

coivië

noun. life, life, [ᴱQ.] liveliness; awakening

The usual word for “life” in Tolkien’s later writings based on the root √KOY (NM/84, 119; VT49/42), in one place appearing with the variant koive (PE17/68). In another place Tolkien instead used kuivie for “life” in the phrase kuivie-lankasse “on the brink of life”, reflecting Tolkien’s ongoing vacillation between √KOY and √KUY as the root for life.

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. koivie was “awakening” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/48) as reflected in the name ᴱQ. Koivie-néni “Waters of Awakening” from this period (QL/48), but the word was glossed “liveliness” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/29). The noun for “life, being alive” was ᴹQ. kuile in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY), but was usually coivie in Tolkien’s writings from the 1950s and 60s, as noted above.

Neo-Quenya: I prefer √KOY as the root for “life” for purposes of Neo-Eldarin, so I’d use coivie as the noun “life, liveliness”, and use cuivië for “awakening” as seen in the later form of the name Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” (S/48).

Derivations

• √KOY “*live, have life, [ᴹ√] live, have life”

Element in

• ᴺQ. coivenqua “lively, vibrant, vivacious, (lit.) full of life”
• Q. cuivië-lancassë “on the brink of life” ✧ VT42/08
• Q. nai amanya onnalya ter coivierya “*may your (sg.) child be blessed throughout his/her life” ✧ VT49/42
• Q. nai calambar onnalda ter coivierya “*may your (pl.) child be light-fated throughout his/her life” ✧ VT49/42

Variations

• koive ✧ PE17/068
• koivie ✧ PE17/068
• kuivie ✧ VT42/08

coivë

noun. life

cuilë

life, being alive

cuilë ("k")noun "life, being alive" (KUY)

coiva

awake

coiva _("k")_adj. "awake" (LT1:257 - read *cuiva in LotR-style Quenya? Cf. coivië becoming cuivië. On the other hand, the elements cui- and coi- having to do with life and awakening cannot be wholly separated.

coi

life

coi ("k")"life" (LT1:257; in Tolkien's later Quenya cuilë)

eccoita-

awake

#eccoita- vb. "awake" (VT27:10)

cuiva

adjective. awake

Derivations

• √KUY “awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”