uqu

root. wet

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “wet”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. úqa “wet” and ᴱQ. úqil “rain” (QL/98). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. ub⁽⁾ “wet” and G. uch “rain” (GL/74). In later writings Tolkien used different roots for “wet”.

Derivatives

• ᴱ✶ukko “rain”
  • G. uch “rain” ✧ GL/74
• Eq. ukku “rainbow” ✧ QL/098
• Eq. uqu- “to rain” ✧ QL/098
• Eq. úqil “rain” ✧ QL/098
• Eq. úqa “wet” ✧ QL/098
• G. ub “wet, moist, damp”