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drû

noun. wild man, Wose, Púkel-Man

In PE/11:31, an older Gnomish word drû, drui meant "wood, forest", and in PE/13:142, the early Noldorin word drú was assigned the meaning "dark". Drû pl. Drúin later came to be used for the name of the Woses, with other derivatives (Drúadan, etc.). "Wose" is actually the modernization of an Anglo-Saxon word wasa only found in the compound wudu-wasa "wild man of the woods", cf. UT/385 sq. In the drafts of the "Ride of the Rohirrim" in WR/343-346, the Woses first appeared as "the dark men of Eilenach". Though internally said to derive from drughu in their own tongue, Tolkien's choice for the Sindarin name of the Woses was apparently influenced by earlier meanings assigned to this word

Sindarin [UT/385] MS *druγ, Dr druγu. Group: SINDICT. Published by

drû

proper name. Wose

A Sindarin word for “Wose”, a loan word from the Wose’s name for themselves: Drughu (UT/385).

Conceptual Development: In his Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings (WPP) from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien considered making this word a native Sindarin adjective “savage, wild” derived from the root √DROB, a variant of √SROB from which rhaw “wild” was derived (PE17/99). These roots would produce the Q. cognate (h)róva instead of better established Q. (h)ráva “wild”, so I personally prefer the later derivation of Drû as a loan word from Wos. Drughu.

Sindarin [PE17/099; UT/385; UTI/Drúath; UTI/Drúedain; UTI/Rú] Group: Eldamo. Published by

drû

adjective. savage

adj. savage, wild. Q. hróva. >> Druadan

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:99] < (D)ROB. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

drúadan

proper name. Wose, (lit.) Wild-man

The full Sindarin word for “Wose”, a compound of Drû “Wose” and Adan “Man” (PM/324, UT/385), also translated as “Wild Man” (PE17/99, WR/352).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, the name N. Druadan appeared with a short u (WR/352). It also had a short u in Tolkien’s Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings (WPP) from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/99), but had a long ú in later writings.

Sindarin [LotRI/Drúadan Forest; PE17/099; PM/324; PMI/Drúedain; UT/319; UT/385; UTI/Drúadan Forest; UTI/Drúedain; UTI/Oghor-hai; UTI/Rú; WJI/Druedain] Group: Eldamo. Published by

drúnos

proper name. a family of the Drû-folk

A Sindarin term for a family of Woses (UT/385), a compound of Drû “Wose” and nos(s) “family”.

drúwaith

place name. the wilderness of the Drû-folk

A Sindarin term for the wilderness inhabited by the Woses (UT/385), a compound of Drû “Wose” and the lenited form of gwaith “region”.

drúath

noun. the people of the Drû, the Woses

Sindarin [UT/385] Group: SINDICT. Published by

drúnos

noun. a family of the Drû-folk (q.v.)

Sindarin [UT/385] drû+nos(s). Group: SINDICT. Published by

drúwaith

noun. the wilderness of the Drû-men (q.v.)

Sindarin [UT/385] drû+gwaith. Group: SINDICT. Published by

drúnos

family of the drû-folk

(i Dhrúnos), pl. Drúnys (in Drúnys), coll. pl. Drúnossath. See