Primitive elvish

ugrā

adjective. nasty

Derivations

  • UG “dislike” ✧ PE22/160

Derivatives

  • Q. úra “torrid, sultry, unpleasantly hot” ✧ PE22/160
  • S. oer “nasty” ✧ PE22/160
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uk

root. nasty

The root √OKO was mentioned a couple times in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959 with glosses like “wicked, evil” and “evil, bad” serving as the basis for Q. olca/S. ogol “bad, wicked, evil” along with similar words (PE14/149, 170). In other notes from this period Tolkien said √OKO “evil” influenced the meaning of the Sindarin root √AK “hostile return” (PE17/167). In one of these 1959 notes, Tolkien wrote UK, UKLA below OKO with derivatives Q. ulca and S. ogl, all unglossed (PE17/149); Q. ulca was the word Tolkien used most frequently for “evil” in Quenya. In notes from 1968, Tolkien mentioned √UK “nasty” in passing, without giving any derivatives (VT48/25); Patrick Wynne suggested this form of the root may have been connected to 1969 √UG “dislike” (VT48/32 note #15; PE22/160).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I prefer Q. ulca for “evil”, but I think √OKO “wicked” might coexist with it as variant to salvage other words from that root.

Derivatives

  • ulka ✧ VT48/32
    • Q. ulca “evil; dark, gloomy, sinister, evil; dark, gloomy, sinister; [ᴱQ.] bad, wicked, wrong” ✧ PE17/149; VT48/32
    • S. ogol “bad, evil, wrong; gloom(y)” ✧ PE17/149
  • Q. ulco “evil”

Element in

  • ulka ✧ PE17/149; PE17/188

Variations

  • uk ✧ VT48/32 (uk)
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