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Qenya 

kukua

noun. dove

A word for “dove” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, derived from ᴹ✶kukūwā based on a reduplicated form of the root ᴹ√KŪ (Ety/KŪ). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien gave this as a pair of words ku, kua, but in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne clarified that it was a single word kukua replacing a deleted form {<< kua} (EtyAC/KŪ).

Changes

  • kua → kukua “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ

Cognates

  • On. kukua “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ
  • N. cugu “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶kukūwā “dove” ✧ Ety/KŪ
    • ᴹ√KŪ “*coo” ✧ Ety/KŪ

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶kukūwā > kukua[kukūwā] > [kukuwā] > [kukua]✧ Ety/KŪ

Variations

  • ku/kua ✧ EtyAC/KŪ
  • kua ✧ EtyAC/KŪ (kua)
Qenya [Ety/KŪ; EtyAC/KŪ] Group: Eldamo. Published by