cúran
noun. crescent moon
cû
noun. arch, crescent
cúran
noun. the crescent Moon
cû
noun. arch, crescent
cû
noun. bow
peng
noun. bow (for shooting)
cú
arch, crescent
cú ("k")noun "arch, crescent" (KU3); "crescent Moon" (LT1:271; the long vowel was denoted by a circumflex rather than an accent in the early "Qenya" lexicon). In Sindarin, the same word can be used for a "bow" as used to shoot arrows (but possibly this is only quinga in Quenya).
cúnë
crescent, bow
cúnë _("k")_noun "crescent, bow" (LT1:271). Cf. cú.
cúnë
noun. crescent, arch, bow
caw-
bow
#caw- vb. "bow" ("k")(1st pers aorist cawin "I bow") (LT1:257; cf. cauca, cauco). In Tolkien's later Quenya, a verbal stem with w in this position does not seem to fit the general phonology well; intervocalic w would become v. We should perhaps read *cav*- whereever the second consonant of the root follows a vowel, but the nasal-infixed past tense could be canwë with the original quality of the consonant preserved. (Compare such a past tense form as anwë, q.v.) However, Tolkiens later verb luhta**- may be preferred for intransitive "bow".
cuv-
verb. bow
luhta-
to bow
luhta- (2) vb. "to bow" (VT47:35); this intransitive verb can be distinguished from luhta- "enchant" above, since #1 is transitive and will always have a direct object, something #2 never has.
lúva
bow, bight; bend, bow, curve
lúva noun "bow, bight; bend, bow, curve" (Appendix E, PE17:122, 168). The reference is to a "bow" as part of written characters and other uses, but "not for shooting" (a bow used to shoot arrows is called quinga, possibly also cú if the latter term is used as in Sindarin).
quinga
bow
quinga ("q")noun "bow" (for shooting) (KWIG, LT1:256)
cû
noun. bow, bow; [N.] arch, crescent; [G.] waxing or waning moon
cúron
noun. the crescent Moon
cû
noun. arch, crescent
cû
crescent
cû (i gû, o chû) (arch, bow), pl. cui (i chui);
cû
crescent
(i gû, o chû) (arch, bow), pl. cui (i chui);
cúron
noun. crescent moon
cúron
crescent moon
(i gúron, o chúron), pl. cúroen (i churoen). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” cúran; compare the Sindarin month-names in -ron.
cúron
crescent moon
*cúron (i gúron, o chúron), pl. cúroen (i churoen). Suggested Sindarin form of ”Noldorin” cúran; compare the Sindarin month-names in -ron.
cû
bow
(i gû, o chû) (arch, crescent), pl. cui (i chui)
cû
bow
1) (noun) cû (i gû, o chû) (arch, crescent), pl. cui (i chui), 2) (bow for shooting) peng (i beng, o pheng), pl. ping (i phing),
cû
arch
cû (i gû, o chû) (bow, crescent), pl. cui (i chui)
cû
arch
(i gû, o chû) (bow, crescent), pl. cui (i chui)
cû
noun. bow
eilian
rainbow
(pl. eiliain). Archaic elianw (so the coll. pl. may be eilianwath).
peng
bow
(i beng, o pheng), pl. ping (i phing)
lú
noun. bow
cogn
noun. bow
Primitive form given as kuȜnâ, derived from KUȜ "bow" (LR:365); it is probable that ku3nâ was originally an adjective "bow-shaped", since -nâ is predominantly an adjectival ending. As for Ȝ (spirant g) becoming a plosive g, compare garma.
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!
crinc
noun/adjective. bent and thin; crescent
An adjective in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bent and thin”, also serving as a noun “crescent” (GL/27), perhaps based on the early root ᴱ√KṚKṚ (QL/48).
cû
noun. bow, crescent; the waxing or waning moon
cwing
noun. bow
quing
noun. bow
kú
noun. crescent moon
kúne
noun. crescent, bow, arch
kúva lunde (silmea)
*crescent phase (of the moon)
qinga
noun. bow
kú
noun. bow, bow; [ᴱQ.] crescent moon
ku(ʒ)
root. bow
The root ᴹ√KU(Ʒ) “bow” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/KUƷ), most likely a later version of ᴱ√KUVU “bend, bow” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/49). One notable derivative in both periods was G. cû “bow, crescent” and N. cû “arch, crescent”, which regularly appeared as S. cû “bow” in later writings, for example in S. Laer Cú Beleg “Song of the Great Bow” (GL/27; Ety/KUƷ; S/209).
The probably-related root ᴹ√KUB “bow” appeared in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/102); ᴹQ. nukumna “humbled (?under-bowed)” from this period may also be related (SD/246). In notes from the late 1950s or early 1960s Tolkien gave ✶kūma, Q. cúma and S. cû(f) next to Q. lúva “bow, bight (not for shooting)” < √LUB “bend”, so presumably cúma/cû was “bow (for shooting)” (PE17/122). Finally Q. cúna “bent, curved” appeared in notes associated with the version of the Q. Markirya poem from the late 1960s, along with a verb form cúna- “to bend” (MC/222-223).
These variations make it difficult to determine what Tolkien intended the root to mean, but for purposes of Neo-Eldarin I would assume a base root of √KU(Ʒ) or √KU(H) with perhaps a verbal variant √KUB based on its use in the 1940s, and with the primitive sense “bow, bend”.
kuu̯
noun. bow
kub
root. bow
A word appearing in The Etymologies of the 1930s as N. cûran “crescent moon”, a combination of N. cû “crescent” and N. Rhân “moon” < ᴹ✶Ranā (Ety/KUƷ, RAN). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien gave the form as cúran, but according to Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne the actual form was cûran (EtyAC/KUƷ).
Neo-Sindarin: If adapted to Neo-Sindarin, this word would probably become ᴺS. cúron, analogous to S. cýron “new-moon” (VT48/7), with S. Raun < ✱rānā reduced to -ron as usual in polysyllables.