úmëa (2) adj. "evil" (UGU/UMU). Obsoleted by #1 above? Possibly connected to úmëai in Narqelion, if that is a "Qenya" plural form.
Quenya
hrú(y)a
adjective. evil, wicked
Cognates
- S. rhû “evil, wicked” ✧ PE17/170
Derivations
- √SRUG “*evil, wicked” ✧ PE17/170
Element in
- Q. hru- “evil-” ✧ PE17/170
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √S-RŪGU > hrúa [srūga] > [r̥ūɣa] > [r̥ūga] > [r̥ūa] ✧ PE17/170 Variations
- hrúa ✧ PE17/170
- hrúya ✧ PE17/170
úra
evil, nasty
úmëa
evil
ulca
evil, bad, wicked, wrong
ulca adj. "evil, bad, wicked, wrong" (QL:97, VT43:23-24, VT48:32, VT49:14; compounded in henulca "evileyed", SD:68); variant olca, q.v. Compare noun ulco. The adj. ulca may also itself be used as a noun "evil", as in the ablative form ulcallo "from evil" (VT43:8, 10) and the sentence cé mo quetë ulca *"if one speaks evil" (VT49:19).
úro
evil
úro noun "evil" (VT43:24); Tolkien may have abandoned this form in favour of ulco, q.v.
naxa
adjective. evil
naxa
noun/adjective. evil
Element in
- Q. carë mára quí tyarë naxa “doing good may cause evil” ✧ PE22/154
Variations
- naxa ✧ PE22/154
olca
evil, bad, wicked
olca adj. "evil, bad, wicked" (VT43:23-24, VT48:32, VT49:14, PE17:149). The root meaning implies "wickedness as well as badness or lack of worth" (PE17:170). Variant of ulca.
ulco
evil
ulco (stem #ulcu-) noun "evil", pl. *ulqui (VT43:23-24; the stem-form is attested in the ablative case: ulcullo "from evil", VT43:12)
ulco
noun. evil
Derivations
- √UK “nasty”
Element in
úra (1) adj. "evil, nasty" (VT43:24, VT48:32)