Early Primitive Elvish
usu
root. get out, escape
Derivatives
Variations
- USU¹ ✧ QL/098
ʒuðu Reconstructed
root. *burn
Derivatives
Variations
- gudh ✧ GL/42
- USU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
- UŘU ✧ QL/098; QL/098
- USU² ✧ QL/098
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usu
root. get out, escape
Derivatives
Variations
- USU¹ ✧ QL/098
ʒuðu Reconstructed
root. *burn
Derivatives
Variations
- gudh ✧ GL/42
- USU ✧ LT1A/Ûr; QL/098
- UŘU ✧ QL/098; QL/098
- USU² ✧ QL/098
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”.