A root in the Qenya Lexicon for words like ᴱQ. hóre “pine”, but Tolkien erased the root without coming up with a replacement (QL/41). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.
Early Primitive Elvish
huhu
root. whoop
Derivatives
- Eq. húta- “to whoop” ✧ QL/041
Element in
- Eq. hulále “babble, chatter, conversation” ✧ QL/041
Variations
- HUHU ✧ QL/041
huhu
root. *pine
Derivatives
- Eq. hóre “pine, stone pine” ✧ QL/041
Variations
HUHU✧ QL/041 (HUHU)
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “whoop”, with various Early Qenya derivatives of similar meaning (QL/41). Tolkien connected it to the root ᴱ√HO(HO) “shout, scream”, of which it is probably a variant.