cuivë

awakening

cuivë ("k")noun "awakening" (KUY)

cuivë

noun. awakening

cuivië

awakening

cuivië noun "awakening" (early "Qenya" coivië, q.v., but this word Tolkien later used = *"life"). In Cuiviénen, "Water of Awakening" (SA:cuivië, SA:nen, KUY; spelt with a k_ in the Etymologies). Somewhat surprisingly, cuivië is used to mean "life" in cuivie-lancassë ("k"), literally 'on the brink of life' ("of a perilous situation in which one is likely to fall into death") (VT42:8)_ The form coivië is used for "life" elsewhere.

cuivië

noun. awakening

A word for “awakening”, most notably an element in the word Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” (S/48). It was derived from the root √KUY (Ety/KUY). In a few places it appeared as kuive instead (PE17/68; Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: The earliest form for “Waters of Awakening” was ᴱQ. Koivie-néni (LT1/85), and ᴱQ. koivie was glossed as “awakening” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/48). It was glossed “liveliness” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, however, and ᴱQ. qîvie was “awakening” (GL/29).

Element in

• Q. Cuiviénen “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië
• Q. Cuivienyarna “Legend of the Awakening [of the Quendi]” ✧ WJ/420

Elements

Word	Gloss
KUY	“awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”
-vë	“abstract noun, adverb”

Variations

• kuive ✧ PE17/068
• cuivië ✧ SA/cuivië
• Cuivie ✧ WJ/420

echui

noun. awakening

echui

noun. awakening

A noun for “awakening”, most notably in Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” (SA/cuivië, LR/406). It appeared as N. echui(w) “awakening” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶et-kuiwē under the root ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” (Ety/KUY).

Conceptual Development: The earliest name for the “Waters of Awakening” was G. Nenin a Gwivros from the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, and in that document G. cwivros “awakening” appeared as a noun form of G. cwivra- “awaken (intr.)” (GL/29). ᴱN. {cuibros >>} cuivros “awakening” appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/141) before the word became echui(w) in The Etymologies of the 1930s, as noted above.

Derivations

• √KUY “awake; live, awake; live, [ᴹ√] come to life”

Element in

• S. echuir “early Spring, (lit.) stirring”
• ᴺS. mornechui “coffee”
• S. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” ✧ SA/cuivië

echui

awakening

echui (echuiw). No distinct pl. form. Coll. pl. echuiwath.

echui

awakening

(echuiw). No distinct pl. form. Coll. pl. echuiwath.

echuiw

noun. awakening

echui(w)

noun. awakening

Cognates

• ᴹQ. kuivie “awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY

Derivations

• ᴹ✶et-kuiwē “awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY
  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Element in

• N. echuir “early Spring, (lit.) stirring”
• N. Nen Echui “Water of Awakening” ✧ Ety/KUY

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶et-kuiwē > echui(w)	[etkuiwē] > [ekkuiwē] > [ekkuiwe] > [ekkʰuiwe] > [exxuiwe] > [exxuiw] > [exxui] > [exui]	✧ Ety/KUY

echui

noun. awakening