Eldamo : Neo-Primitive Elvish : RUH

ᴱ√RU’U root. “‽”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, probably actually *ᴱ√RUƷU, with derivatives like ᴱQ. rú “dwelling, village, hamlet”, ᴱQ. rue “rest, stillness, remaining, steadfastness”, and ᴱQ. ruin “peace” (QL/80). There were a number of likely-related words in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. rô “enduring, long suffering; quiet, gentle, docile”, G. rû “dwelling, house”, and G. rûtha- “dwell, remain”, though Tolkien seems to have rejected the Gnomish forms beginning with rô- (GL/66). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing, but I think it is worth positing a Neo-Root ᴺ√RUH “*still” to preserve some of these early words.

Reference ✧ QL/80 ✧ “‽”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. rú¹ “dwelling, village, hamlet” ✧ QL/80
- ⇒ ᴱQ. ruella “village” ✧ QL/80
> ᴱQ. rú² “steadfastness, faith, trustiness” ✧ QL/80
> ᴱQ. rue “rest, stillness, remaining, steadfastness” ✧ QL/80
- ⇒ ᴱQ. rua “steady, still, tranquil” ✧ QL/80
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. Ruamóre “*Still Night” ✧ QL/80
> ᴱQ. ruin “peace” ✧ QL/80
> ᴱQ. ‽rungwa “stiff, solid” ✧ QL/80
> ᴱQ. #rúse “weary”
- ⇒ ᴱQ. Rúsitaurion “Son of the Weary Forest” ✧ LT2/89
> ᴱQ. rúya “unmoved, steadfast” ✧ QL/80
> G. rô- “to remain, stay, stand; to endure”
> G. rô¹ “enduring, long suffering; quiet, gentle, docile”
> G. rôs² “endurance, meekness, patience, gentleness”
> G. rû¹ “dwelling, house”
- ⇒ G. ruin “inhabited, tilled” ✧ GL/66
> G. ruin “inhabited, tilled”
> G. rûs “endurance, long suffering, patience”
> G. rust “inhabitation; cultivation, tillage”
> G. rûtha- “to dwell, remain”