Early Quenya
lukso
noun. mud
Derivations
- ᴱ√LUKU “*slime, mud” ✧ QL/056
Element in
- Eq. luksor “swamp, bog” ✧ QL/056
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√LUKU > lukso [luksu] > [lukso] ✧ QL/056
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The word ᴱQ. lukso (luksu-) appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “mud” as a derivative of the root ᴱ√LUKU (QL/56).
Neo-Quenya: The root √LUK had other meanings in Tolkien’s later writings. However, the later root √LOG “wet (and soft), soaked, swampy” seems to be similar in sense to early ᴱ√LUKU, so this word for “mud” might be salvaged as a neologism: ✱log-sō > lokso > ᴺQ. loxo.