An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/82), which may have reemerged as √SAWA “disgusting, foul, vile” in notes from the 1950s (PE17/172, 183).
Early Primitive Elvish
ū
root. not
uqu
root. wet
umu
root. *negative
ukko
noun. rain
ulu
root. *negative
uvu
root. *negative
ourū̆
noun. sun
saw̯a
root. [unglossed]
sivi
root. [unglossed]
Unglossed roots in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants ᴱ√SIVI and ᴱ√SIWI and a single unglossed derivative ᴱQ. sivilda (QL/84). It is difficult to guess what Tolkien intended for these forms to mean, though they conceivably reemerged as the later roots ᴹ√SIW “excite, egg on, urge” (Ety/SIW) or √SIB “rest, quiet” (VT44/35).
tołᵂo
root. [unglossed]
An unglossed root in The Qenya Phonology of the 1910s illustrating a hypothetical series of ancient lateral approximants, with derived roots like ᴱ√TOLO and ᴱ√TOẆO [with ẇ = ɣʷ] (PE12/16). The former appeared in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon as the basis for island words (QL/94), but the latter appeared nowhere else in Early Qenya writings.
-yǝ
suffix. [unglossed]
lepse
?. [unglossed]
lopse
?. [unglossed]
teled-
noun. [unglossed]
toẇo
root. [unglossed]
t’lḗpe
noun. butter
tḷkḷ
root. [unglossed]
mat-
verb. to eat
saχ[a]
noun. fire
yn̄t
adjective. large
āra
noun. smith
ḷ-
prefix. negative prefix
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “wet”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. úqa “wet” and ᴱQ. úqil “rain” (QL/98). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. ub⁽⁾ “wet” and G. uch “rain” (GL/74). In later writings Tolkien used different roots for “wet”.