Early Primitive Elvish
u̯i
prefix. u̯i
uiŋē
noun. uiŋē
gwili
root. *peace, quiet
wiri
root. *look
gwiŋi
root. *foam
gwigi
root. *foam
gwili
root. *fly
mele
root. love
niqi
root. white
ourū̆
noun. sun
snóra
noun. muscle
A primitive appearing as {✶gu̯iri >>} ✶u̯iri [ᴱ√WIRI] in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s serving as the basis for G. gwir- “look, look at” and G. gwirith “expression, look (on face); look, regard, fixed look; countenance” (GL/46-47). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.