Quenya 

tiuya-

swell, grow fat

tiuya- vb. "swell, grow fat" (TIW; emended by Tolkien from tiuta-, VT46:19)

Primitive elvish

pul

root. swell

Derivatives

  • ᴺ✶. LUP “hump, lump, fat”
    • ᴺQ. ulumpë “camel”
    • ᴺS. lûb “fat, (fat) flesh”
  • ᴺQ. pulco “trunk, bole of tree, *torso, body”
  • ᴺQ. pulta- “to make swell, leaven”
  • ᴺS. polch “trunk, torso”

Element in

  • ᴺQ. pulmaxë “leaven(ing), *yeast”

Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Primitive Elvish

pulu

root. swell

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as ᴱ√PULU “swell”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. pulko “body, trunk, bole of tree”, ᴱQ. pulu- “swell (intr.)”, and ᴱQ. pulwa “fat, bulky” (QL/75). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. polc “thick, fat” (GL/64) and G. famfolc “fat-bellied” (GL/34), but also G. baul “body, trunk” was compared to ᴱQ. pulka (GL/22), hinting at a blending with ✱ᴱ√BULU. In the Gnomish Lexicon there is also a primitive form ᴱ✶lūpe with derivatives G. lub “fat, fat flesh” and G. lubi “corpulent” (GL/55), which might be an inversion of ᴱ√PULU. This inversion reappeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists from the 1920s as ᴱN. lhub “fat”.

Neo-Eldarin: In Tolkien’s later writings, “swell” and “fat” seems to have been transferred to the root ᴹ√TIW, but I think it is worth retaining ᴺ√PUL as a Neo-Eldarin root to serve as the basis for Elvish words for “trunk” and “torso”. Helge Fauskanger also used this root in connection to the rising of yeast in NQNT (Neo-Quenya New Testament).

Derivatives

  • ᴱ✶lūpe “fat, fat flesh”
    • G. lub “fat, fat flesh” ✧ GL/55
  • Eq. pulko “body, trunk, bole of tree” ✧ QL/075
  • Eq. pulme “lump, knob” ✧ QL/075
  • Eq. pulu- “to swell (intr.)” ✧ QL/075
  • Eq. pulwa “fat, bulky” ✧ QL/075
  • En. lhub “fat”
  • G. baul “body, trunk”
  • G. polc “thick, fat”
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/075] Group: Eldamo. Published by