Early Quenya
lúke
noun. slime
Derivations
- ᴱ√LUKU “*slime, mud” ✧ QL/056
Element in
- Eq. lúkima “slimy” ✧ QL/056
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√LUKU > lūke [lūkē] > [lūke] ✧ QL/056 Variations
- lūke ✧ PME/056; QL/056
A noun in both the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s glossed “slime”, derived from the root ᴱ√LUKU (QL/56). The root √LUK had other meanings in Tolkien’s later writings, and there is no obvious way to salvage this word.