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Middle Primitive Elvish

ulug

root. *hideous, deformed

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. ulundo/N. ulun “monster, deformed and hideous creature” and Ilk. olg/ᴹT. ulga “hideous, horrible” (Ety/ÚLUG). It might be a later iteration of unglossed ᴱ√ULU⁽⁾ from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like the negative prefix ᴱQ. ulka “bad, wicked, wrong” and the prefix ᴱQ. ul- “mis-”, distinct from but confused with the negative prefix ul- derived from primitive ḷ before labial consonants (QL/97). Tolkien said the root was actually ᴱ√’ULU [ƷULU], but in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. ulc “evil, bad, wicked” (GL/74), rather than ✱✱gulc which is the expected result of ✱ʒulc- in Gnomish.

Derivatives

  • Ilk. olg “hideous, horrible” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
  • ᴹ✶ulgundō “monster, deformed and hideous creature” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
    • Ilk. ulion “monster, deformed and hideous creature” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
    • ᴹQ. ulundo “monster, deformed and hideous creature” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
    • N. ulun “monster, deformed and hideous creature” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
    • ᴹT. ulgundo “monster, deformed and hideous creature” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
  • N. ul- “*ugly” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
  • ᴹT. ulga “hideous, horrible” ✧ Ety/ÚLUG

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Variations

  • ÚLUG ✧ Ety/PHAS; Ety/SPÁNAG; Ety/ÚLUG; Ety/WAR
  • ÚLGU ✧ Ety/ÚLUG
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