Early Quenya
pus-
verb. to puff, snort
pus
noun. boil
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pus-
verb. to puff, snort
pus
noun. boil
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “boil” under the early root ᴱ√PUŘU [PUÐU] “consume by fire” (QL/75). Its stem form was pust-, so presumably ancient ðt became st.