kuy

root. awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life

A root Tolkien used in the 1930s through 1960s, sometimes meaning both “live” and “awake” and sometimes just “awake”.

Derivatives

• ✶etkuinu- “to awake, wake up” ✧ PE22/136
  • ᴺQ. eccuinu- “to awake, wake up”
• ✶kuitā- “to waken, rouse” ✧ PE22/136
  • ᴺQ. cuita- “to waken, rouse; to live”
• Q. cuima “creature, animal”
• Q. cuiva “animal” ✧ NM/274
• ᴺQ. cuina- “to live, be alive”
• Q. cuita- “to live” ✧ PE22/156
• ᴺQ. cuiva “awake”
• ᴺQ. cuiva- “to awake”
• ᴺS. cui(w) “awake, alert, alive”
• S. echui “awakening”

Element in

• ✶etkuinu- “to awake, wake up”
• ᴺQ. cuingolmë “biology”
• ᴺQ. cuilórë “day-dream, (lit.) awake-dream”
• Q. cuivië “awakening”
• ᴺS. echuia- “to awaken, wake up (intr.)”

Variations

• cuy ✧ NM/274
• KUJ ✧ PE22/136

koiru

verb. come to life

et-koiru/et-koilu

verb. come to life