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Middle Primitive Elvish

tiw

root. fat, thick

The root ᴹ√TIW “fat, thick” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. tiuka/N. tûg “thick, fat” and ᴹQ. tiuko “thigh” (Ety/TIW). Tolkien said it may have been the basis for the root ᴹ√TUY “spring, sprout” via the sense “grow fat, swell” (Ety/TUY), perhaps as an abnormal vocalization: ✱tiwy- > ✱t(i)u̯y-. Tolkien had a similar pair of related roots in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s: ᴱ√TIW̯I “thick” and unglossed ᴱ√TYU which was the basis for words like ᴱQ. tyû “thigh” (GL/50, 93); that document also had ᴱ√TUẎU as the basis for “sprout” and “spring” words, but in the 1910s it seems to be unrelated. Also in the 1910s, Tolkien had unglossed ᴱ√PIẆI with derivatives like ᴱQ. pingwa “fat, rich (of soil)” and ᴱQ. piu “calf of leg” (QL/74), which might have been another precursor to ᴹ√TIW “fat, thick” from the 1930s.

In the Outline of Phonetic Development (OP1) also of the 1930s, Tolkien instead gave ᴹ√KIWIK as the basis for ᴹQ. ciuca “thigh” (PE19/54). A similar etymology for Q. kiuka or kyūka “thigh” appeared in Outline of Phonology (OP2) of the early 1950s (PE19/107). Thus there was considerable variation in form for these roots.

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I’d stick with ᴹ√TIW “fat, thick” as the base root, as it has the largest collection of derivatives.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶tiukō “thigh” ✧ Ety/TIW
    • ᴹQ. tiuko “thigh” ✧ Ety/TIW
  • ᴹ✶tiukā “thick, fat” ✧ Ety/TIW
    • Ilk. tiog “thick, fat” ✧ Ety/TIW
    • ᴹQ. tiuka “thick, fat, thick, fat; [ᴱQ.] dense, solid” ✧ Ety/TIW
    • On. tūka “thick, fat” ✧ Ety/TIW
    • N. tûg “thick, fat” ✧ Ety/TIW
  • ᴹ✶tui- “to grow fat, swell‽” ✧ EtyAC/TUY
  • ᴺQ. tiuma “grape”
  • ᴺQ. tiura “compact”
  • ᴺQ. tiuta- “to corroborate, confirm; to comfort, console, *(orig.) to make firm; to strengthen”
  • ᴹQ. tiuya- “to swell, grow fat” ✧ Ety/TIW
  • ᴺS. tŷg “thigh”
  • On. tuio- “to swell” ✧ Ety/TIW
    • N. tuia- “to sprout, spring; to swell” ✧ Ety/TIW
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/TIW; EtyAC/TUY] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tui-

verb. to grow fat, swell‽

Derivations

  • ᴹ√TIW “fat, thick” ✧ EtyAC/TUY

Variations

  • tuı̯ ✧ Ety/TUY
  • TIW ✧ EtyAC/TUY
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