nū

root. *under

nuhu

root. bow, bend down, stoop, sink

Derivatives

• ᴱ✶numne
  • En. nuin “sinking, going down; west” ✧ PE13/151
• Eq. nu “under”
• Eq. núme “west” ✧ LT1A/Númë; PME/068; QL/068
• Eq. nún “beneath”
• Eq. núta- “to stoop, sink” ✧ LT1A/Númë; QL/068
• G. nûmin “the west, sinking” ✧ LT1A/Númë
• En. nuv- “to sink, set”
• G. num- “to sink, decline, slope down, descend” ✧ LT1A/Númë
• G. nûda “prone, face down”
• G. numbros “incline, slope” ✧ LT1A/Númë
• G. nud- “to incline head, bend face down”
• G. nunta- “to assent”
• G. nunthi “downward” ✧ LT1A/Númë

Variations

• nuhu- ✧ PME/068
• NŪ ✧ QL/068 (NŪ); QL/096

ū

root. under

The root ᴱ√Ū⁽¹⁾ “under” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a reduced form of {ᴱ√UGU >>} ᴱ√UƷU, with derivatives like ᴱQ. ū “beneath” and ᴱQ. umbe “dale, dell” (QL/96-97). It also had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. um⁽⁾ “lowlying” and G. umbel “a dell” (GL/74). Tolkien noted that ᴱ√Ū also meant “not”, and contrasted ᴱ√Ū¹ “under” with ᴱ√NŪ (ᴱ√NUHU) of similar meaning (QL/68, 96). Indeed, in Tolkien’s later writings, √NŪ/UNU was the usual basis for “under” words, and ᴱ√Ū¹ “under” seems to have been abandoned.

Changes

• UGU → UƷU ✧ QL/096

Derivatives

• Eq. umbe “dale, dell” ✧ QL/096
• Eq. ú “beneath” ✧ QL/096
• Eq. úva “the under” ✧ QL/096
• G. ûthi “outside”
• G. uf “out of, forth, from”
• G. um “lowlying”
• G. ûtha- “to emit; to issue”

Variations

• UƷU ✧ QL/096
• UGU ✧ QL/097 (UGU)