tui

noun. a sprout, bud

tui

noun. sprout, bud

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “a sprout, bud” under the root ᴹ√TUY “spring, sprout” (Ety/TUY).

Conceptual Development: There was a different word G. teth “a bud” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/70), likely based on the early root ᴱ√TETE “bud, blossom” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/92).

Cognates

• ᴹQ. tuima “sprout, bud” ✧ Ety/TUY

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tuimā “a sprout, bud” ✧ Ety/TUY
  • ᴹ√TUY “sprout, spring” ✧ Ety/TUY

Element in

• ᴺS. tuilas “petal, (lit.) bud-leaf”
• N. tuilinn “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tuimā > tuiw > tui	[tuimā] > [tuima] > [tuim] > [tuiv] > [tui]	✧ Ety/TUY

tuiw

noun. a sprout, bud

tuia-

verb. to sprout, spring

tuia-

verb. to swell

ethuil

noun. spring

Cognates

• ᴹQ. tuile “spring, spring-time” ✧ PM/134

Variations

• Ethuil ✧ PM/135

eithel

noun. issue of water, spring, well

celw

noun. spring, source