nurru-

murmur, grumble

nurru- vb. "murmur, grumble" (cf. "Qenya" núru-); participle nurrula in Markirya, changed to nurrua, perhaps a kind of verbal adjective of the same meaning (translated "mumbling" in MC:215)

nurru-

verb. to murmur, grumble, mumble

Cognates

• ᴺS. nuru- “to growl, grumble”
• ᴺS. norra- “to growl, grumble”

Derivations

• √NUR “*murmur, grumble”

Element in

• ᴺQ. nurrulë “murmuring”
• Q. raumo nurrua “the storm mumbling” ✧ MC/222; MC/222

escë

rustle, noise of leaves

[escë] ("k") noun "rustle, noise of leaves" (EZGE)

nur Reconstructed

root. *murmur, grumble

An unglossed root appearing as ᴱ√NURU in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. nur(ru) “growl” and ᴱQ. núru- “to growl” (QL/68). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. nur- “growl, grumble” and G. nurn “plaint, lament, a complaint” (GL/61). Tolkien’s use of Q. nurru- “murmur, grumble” in the Markirya poem from the late 1960s indicates the root’s ongoing validity or restoration (MC/222-223), though perhaps with a different meaning. Somewhat interestingly, in the early version of the Markirya poem from around 1930, Tolkien used unrelated ᴱQ. ulmula for “mumbling” (MC/214).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I would assume this root means “growl, grumble, mumble” to allow the salvaging of early words derived from ᴱ√NURU.

Derivatives

• ᴺQ. nur “complaint, growl”
• Q. nurru- “to murmur, grumble, mumble”
• ᴺS. norna- “to complain of, bewail, lament”
• ᴺS. nuru- “to growl, grumble”
• ᴺS. norra- “to growl, grumble”