Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : PUSU

ᴱ√PUSU root. “puff, blow, puff out, make swell”

⚠️ᴱ√PUSU root. “puff, blow, puff out, make swell”: ᴹ√SWES “noise of blowing or breathing”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “puff, blow, puff out, make swell”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. pusse “puff” and ᴱQ. pusulta- “puff out with one’s breath” (QL/76). Another possibly-related form ᴱQ. pustane “blowing” appeared in the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem from around 1930 (MC/213). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s writing after this point.

Reference ✧ QL/76 ✧ “puff, blow, puff out, make swell”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. pus- “to puff, snort” ✧ QL/76
> ᴱQ. pusse “puff” ✧ QL/76
- ⇒ ᴱQ. pusilla “puff, whiff, breeze” ✧ QL/76
> ᴱQ. #pusta- “to blow”
> ᴱQ. pusulpe “gas-bag, balloon” ✧ QL/76
⇒ ᴱQ. pusulta- “to puff out with one’s breath” ✧ QL/76