@@@ [u] preserved because of following [w]
Primitive elvish
uthu
root. bad; unsuitable; improper, useless, wrong; [wrong] with a bad sense
uth
root. get out, escape
Sindarin
uthwen
noun. escape, way out, exit
othra-
verb. to get away, escape
faeg
bad
*faeg (poor, mean). No distinct pl. form. (Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” foeg.)
um
bad
um (evil), pl. ym. David Salo would read *ûm with a long vowel. (According to VT46:20, it may be that um is intended as a base rather than as a ”Noldorin” word.)
ogol
bad
thu
bad
_adj. _bad. >> thugar. This gloss was rejected.
faeg
bad
(poor, mean). No distinct pl. form. (Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” foeg.)
um
bad
(evil), pl. ym. David Salo would read ✱ûm with a long vowel. *(According to VT46:20, it may be that um is intended as a base rather than as a ”Noldorin” word.)*
Noldorin
um
adjective. bad, evil
Quenya
urra
adjective. bad
us-
escape
#us- vb. "escape" (given in the form usin "he escapes" in LT1:251; this would have to mean "I escape" if the word is to be adopted to Tolkien's later Quenya). Cf. uswë.
ú-
prefix. bad, uneasy, hard
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Gnomish
uthwen
noun. escape, way out, exit
uthairiol
adjective. unintentional, unintended; reluctant
uthra-
verb. to get away, escape
fech
adjective. bad
olch
adjective. bad
uir-
verb. not to wish, not mean to, mean not to
ulch
adjective. bad
Early Noldorin
uthir
adjective. without a king
feg
adjective. bad, bad, [G.] poor, wretched
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”.
Early Quenya
falka
adjective. bad
qarda
adjective. bad
This root appeared in a page of roots from Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 with the gloss “unsuitable, bad, improper, useless, wrong” (PE17/172). This page was rejected, but the root √UTHU appeared again later in DLN as the basis for prefixes meaning wrong “with a general bad sense”: Q. us- and S. oth- as in S. othgarn “misdeed” and Q. uskare > Q. uxarë of the same meaning (PE17/151).