Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : TUVU

ᴱ√TUVU root. “*receive”

⚠️ᴱ√TUVU root. “*receive”: √KAB “hold, contain, retain, possess, have in hand; [ᴹ√] hollow”; ᴹ√TUB “to fall low[?], go down (below normal ground level), (esp.) to go down (sink, dive) into water”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. tuvu- “receive, accept, take, require, cost” and ᴱQ. tūvima “acceptable” (QL/96). In the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon it had derivatives like G. tû- “receive, take, get; become” and G. tuvrin “acceptable” (GL/71). ᴱQ. tuv- “receive, take” reappeared in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s (PE14/58). However, by the time of The Lord of the Rings of the 1950s and 60s, the verb Q. tuv- meant “find” or “discover” (LotR/971, PE22/155).

Reference ✧ QL/96

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶tuv- “to receive, take”
- > ᴱQ. tuvu- “to receive, accept, take, require, cost” ✧ PE14/58; PE14/58
  - ⇒ [see above]
- > G. tû- “to get, receive, take; to become”
  - ⇒ G. tuvrin “acceptable” ✧ GL/71
> ᴱQ. tuvu- “to receive, accept, take, require, cost” ✧ QL/96
- ⇒ ᴱQ. astuvu- “to begin” ✧ QL/33
- ⇒ ᴱQ. túvima “acceptable” ✧ QL/96