_ n. _spirit, shadow.
Sindarin
hû
noun. hound (or ?heart), hound, [N.] dog; S. ?heart
hû
spirit
hû
hound
_ n. Zoo. _hound. Q. hú. The gloss might be 'heat'.
hû
noun. spirit, shadow
hû
dog
hû (i chû, o chu, construct hu), pl. hui (i chui)
hû
dog
(i chû, o chu, construct hu), pl. hui (i chui)
A noun appearing as N. hû “dog” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KHUG “bark, bay” (Ety/KHUGAN). The same form hû appeared in rough notes on Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings (WPP) from the late 1950s or early 1960s with a gloss that might be “hound” or might be “heart”, according to Christopher Gilson (PE17/86). This later hû form was derived from ✶khōgo, which makes me think “hound” is the more likely meaning given the primitive form’s resemblance to ᴹ√KHUG.
Conceptual Development: G. hû “dog” also appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/49), but in this period was probably derived from the early root ᴱ√SAẆA (QL/82).