Quenya 

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

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

Variations

  • kuive ✧ PE17/068
  • cuivië ✧ SA/cuivië
  • Cuivie ✧ WJ/420
Quenya [PE17/068; SA/cuivië; WJ/420] Group: Eldamo. Published by

cuivë

awakening

cuivë ("k")noun "awakening" (KUY)

cuivë

noun. awakening

Sindarin 

echui

noun. awakening

Sindarin [Ety/366, S/429] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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
Sindarin [SA/cuivië] Group: Eldamo. Published by

echui

awakening

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

echui

awakening

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

Noldorin 

echui

noun. awakening

Noldorin [Ety/366, S/429] Group: SINDICT. Published by

echuiw

noun. awakening

Noldorin [Ety/366, S/429] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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

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

Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Qenya 

kuivie

noun. awakening

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KUY > kuive[kuiwe] > [kuive]✧ Ety/KUY

Variations

  • kuive ✧ Ety/KUY
  • kuivië ✧ SD/047
Qenya [Ety/KUY; SD/047] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kuive

noun. awakening

Middle Primitive Elvish

et-kuiwē

noun. awakening

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KUY “come to life, awake” ✧ Ety/KUY

Derivatives

Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/KUY] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

cwivros

noun. awakening

Cognates

  • Eq. qíva “awake” ✧ GL/29
  • Eq. koivie “awakening; liveliness” ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni

Element in

Variations

  • cuivros ✧ LT1A/Koivië-néni
Gnomish [GL/29; LT1A/Koivië-néni] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

cuivros

noun. awakening

Changes

  • cuibroscuivros ✧ PE13/141

Variations

  • cuibros ✧ PE13/141 (cuibros)
Early Noldorin [PE13/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

qívie

noun. awakening

Variations

  • qîvie ✧ GL/29
Early Quenya [GL/29] Group: Eldamo. Published by