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Early Primitive Elvish

usu

root. get out, escape

The root ᴱ√USU⁽⁾ appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “get out, escape” and derivatives like ᴱQ. usu- “he escapes” and ᴱQ. uswe “issue, outlet, escape” (QL/98). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. us(ta)- “leave, depart” and G. uthwen “way out, exit; escape” (GL/75), the latter hinting that the root form may have been a blending with ✱ᴱ√UÞU. I think it is worth positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√UTH to salvage these early words for “escape”.

Derivatives

  • Eq. usu- “to escape, get out” ✧ LT1A/Dor Faidwen; QL/098
  • Eq. uswe “escape, issue, outlet” ✧ LT1A/Dor Faidwen; QL/098
  • G. uthra- “to get away, escape”
  • G. us- “to leave, depart” ✧ LT1A/Dor Faidwen
  • G. uthwen “escape, way out, exit” ✧ LT1A/Dor Faidwen

Variations

  • USU¹ ✧ QL/098
Early Primitive Elvish [LT1A/Dor Faidwen; QL/098] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ʒuðu Reconstructed

root. *burn

Derivatives

  • Eq. Úrion ✧ QL/098
  • Eq. urna “oven” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
  • Eq. hus- “to burn (tr.)”
  • Eq. usta- “to burn (tr.)” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
  • Eq. urya- “to burn (intr.)” ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
  • G. gudh- “to be hot (intr.)” ✧ GL/42
  • G. gusta- “to burn (tr.), destroy” ✧ GL/42
  • G. gund “boil, pus” ✧ GL/42

Variations

  • gudh ✧ GL/42
  • USU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
  • UŘU ✧ QL/098; QL/098
  • USU² ✧ QL/098
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/42; LT1A/Ûr; QL/098] Group: Eldamo. Published by