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hrú(y)a

adjective. evil, wicked

Cognates

  • S. rhû “evil, wicked” ✧ PE17/170

Derivations

  • SRUG “*evil, wicked” ✧ PE17/170

Element in

  • Q. hru- “evil-” ✧ PE17/170

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
S-RŪGU > hrúa[srūga] > [r̥ūɣa] > [r̥ūga] > [r̥ūa]✧ PE17/170

Variations

  • hrúa ✧ PE17/170
  • hrúya ✧ PE17/170

úra

evil, nasty

úra (1) adj. "evil, nasty" (VT43:24, VT48:32)

úmëa

evil

úmëa (2) adj. "evil" (UGU/UMU). Obsoleted by #1 above? Possibly connected to úmëai in Narqelion, if that is a "Qenya" plural form.

ulca

evil, bad, wicked, wrong

ulca adj. "evil, bad, wicked, wrong" (QL:97, VT43:23-24, VT48:32, VT49:14; compounded in henulca "evileyed", SD:68); variant olca, q.v. Compare noun ulco. The adj. ulca may also itself be used as a noun "evil", as in the ablative form ulcallo "from evil" (VT43:8, 10) and the sentence cé mo quetë ulca *"if one speaks evil" (VT49:19).

úro

evil

úro noun "evil" (VT43:24); Tolkien may have abandoned this form in favour of ulco, q.v.

naxa

adjective. evil

Quenya [PE 22:154] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

naxa

noun/adjective. evil

Element in

Variations

  • naxa ✧ PE22/154

olca

evil, bad, wicked

olca adj. "evil, bad, wicked" (VT43:23-24, VT48:32, VT49:14, PE17:149). The root meaning implies "wickedness as well as badness or lack of worth" (PE17:170). Variant of ulca.

ulco

evil

ulco (stem #ulcu-) noun "evil", pl. *ulqui (VT43:23-24; the stem-form is attested in the ablative case: ulcullo "from evil", VT43:12)

ulco

noun. evil

Derivations

  • UK “nasty”

Element in

  • Q. násië “but deliver us from evil: Amen” ✧ VT43/24; VT43/23
  • ᴺQ. ulculóra “without evil”
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