Primitive elvish

tuy

root. sprout, bud

Tolkien used this root and ones like it for sprouting things for much of his life. Its earliest appearance was unglossed ᴱ√TUẎU in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, where the probably represents an ancient palatal spirant [ʝ] or [ç], with derivatives like ᴱQ. tuile “spring, (lit.) a budding” and ᴱQ. tuita- “to bud, burst, burgeon, grow” (QL/96). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. tuil “spring” and G. tuitha- “sprout, spring, gush” (GL/71). In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien gave the root as ᴹ√TUY “sprout, spring” with derivatives like ᴹQ. tuia-/N. tuia- “sprout, spring” and ᴹQ. tuile “spring-time” (Ety/TUY). The root reappeared several times in Tolkien’s later writings with glosses like “sprout” (PE19/54) and “sprout, bud” (VT39/7).

Derivatives

  • tuilu- “to open (of buds, flowers)” ✧ PE22/136
    • ᴺS. tuilu- “to bud, open (of flowers and leaves)”
    • ᴺS. tuila- “to bud, open (of flowers and leaves)”
  • Q. tuilë “spring, spring, [ᴹQ.] spring-time, [ᴱQ.] (lit.) a budding; buds, new shoots, fresh green” ✧ VT39/07
  • ᴺQ. tuista “twig, shoot, sprout, spray”
  • ᴺS. tuig “shoot, sapling, sprout”

Variations

  • TUJ ✧ PE22/136
  • TUJU ✧ VT39/07
  • Tuyu ✧ VT39/09
Primitive elvish [PE22/136; VT39/07; VT39/09] Group: Eldamo. Published by