kyuru

root. curdle

This root first appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ᴱ√TYURU “curdle”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. tyuru- “curdle” and ᴱQ. tyur “cheese” (QL/50). Derivatives also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. cur- “curdle” and G. cûr “cheese” (GL/28). In Gnomish Lexicon Slips revising this document, “cheese” became cír derived from ᴱ√kyus (PE13/111) and Noldorin Word-lists from the 1920s had ᴱN. cír “sour, curdled” and ᴱN. cirtha- “to turn sour” from ᴱ√kyúr (PE13/140).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is worth positing a root ᴺ√KYUR “curdle” to preserve these early “cheese” words.

Derivatives

• ᴱ✶kyurna ✧ PE13/140
  • En. corn “cheese” ✧ PE13/140
• Eq. tyuru- “to ‘turn’ milk, curdle (blood etc.)” ✧ QL/050
• Eq. tyurda “curdled” ✧ QL/050
• Eq. tyur “cheese” ✧ QL/050
• En. cirtha- “to turn sour (tr.)” ✧ PE13/140
• En. curann- “to curdle (intr.)”
• G. cur- “to turn sour, curdle, congeal” ✧ GL/28
• En. cîr “sour, curdled” ✧ PE13/140
• G. caura “sour (of milk)”
• G. cûr “cheese” ✧ GL/28; PE13/111

Variations

• tyuru- ✧ GL/28 (tyuru-)
• kyus ✧ PE13/111
• kyúr- ✧ PE13/140
• TYURU ✧ QL/050

kyusu

root. curdle

tyuru

root. curdle