Primitive elvish
yuldā
noun. what is drunk, a draught
Derivatives
- Q. yulda “drink, draught, thing drunk; cup”
Elements
Word Gloss YUL “drink” -dā “product of an action” Variations
- yul-da ✧ PE17/106
yul
root. drink
Derivatives
- ✶yulmā “drinking-vessel”
- Q. yul- “to drink”
- Q. yulda “drink, draught, thing drunk; cup” ✧ PE17/063
- Q. yulda “drunk”
- Q. yúlima “drinkable” ✧ PE22/155
- Q. yulma “cup, drinking vessel, drinking implement, goblet” ✧ PE17/063
- Q. yuluitë “drinking (as a habit), *aquatic” ✧ PE22/155
- ᴺS. yll “draught”
- ᴺS. ýl- “to drink”
Element in
- ✶yuldā “what is drunk, a draught”
- ✶yulmā “drinking-vessel” ✧ WJ/416
- ✶yulmē “drinking, carousal” ✧ WJ/416
- Q. yulma “cup, drinking vessel, drinking implement, goblet” ✧ PE17/180
- Q. yulunefítë “amphibious, *(lit.) drinking-breathing” ✧ PE22/155
Variations
- JULU ✧ WJ/416
A root meaning “drink” in Tolkien’s later writings, most notably the basis for Q. yulda “draught” and Q. yulma “cup” from the Q. Namárië poem (LotR/377). It seems likely the root was coined in association with this poem, though there are no signs of any yul- forms in its earliest drafts from the 1940s (TI/284). The root √YUL (or √JULU) was mentioned a number of times in Tolkien’s later writings in the 1950s and 60s (PE17/63, 180; PE22/155; WJ/416), but there is no sign of it before then. In earlier writings Tolkien generally used √SOK or √SUK for “drink”, and the root √SOK appeared as late as the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60 (VT39/11), an essay that also referenced √YUL (WJ/416). Thus it isn’t clear whether √SOK was supplanted by √YUL, or if the two roots coexisted.