Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : UQU

ᴱ√UQU root. “wet”

⚠️ᴱ√UQU root. “wet”: ᴹ√LINKWI “*wet”; ᴹ√MISIK “*wet”

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⁽¹⁾ “wet” and G. uch “rain” (GL/74). In later writings Tolkien used different roots for “wet”.

Reference ✧ QL/98 ✧ “wet”

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶ukko “rain”
- > G. uch “rain” ✧ GL/74
> ᴱQ. ukku “rainbow” ✧ QL/98
> ᴱQ. úqa “wet” ✧ QL/98
> ᴱQ. úqil “rain” ✧ QL/98
> ᴱQ. #uqu- “to rain” ✧ QL/98
> G. ub¹ “wet, moist, damp”
- ⇒ G. ubra- “to rain” ✧ GL/74
- ⇒ G. ubri “rainfall, rain” ✧ GL/74