Eldamo : Primitive Elvish : THUS

√THUS root. “evil mist, fog, darkness; blow, cause an air movement”

√THUS root. “blow, cause an air movement; [ᴹ√] *smell, stench; ⚠️[√] evil mist, fog, darkness”: ᴱ√YOLO “smell, stink, reek (intr.)”

See √THAW for discussion.

References ✧ NM/237; PE17/183, 187

Glosses

“blow, cause an air movement” ✧ NM/237
“evil mist, fog, Darkness” ✧ PE17/183; PE17/187

Derivations

< √THŪ? “blow, cause an air movement”

Derivatives

> ᴺQ. !susta- “to stink”
⇒ ✶ñgor(o)-thūsō “Mist of Fear” ✧ PE17/183
- > Q. Norsus “Mist of Fear” ✧ PE17/183
- > S. Gorthaur “?Mist of Fear” ✧ PE17/183
> ✶thūsē “horrible darkness, black mist” ✧ PE17/183
- > S. thû¹ “horrible darkness, black mist” ✧ PE17/183
> ✶thusta- “to send on [a gust of air]”
- > Q. susta- “to blow (tr.)” ✧ NM/239
> ✶thusya- “to go forth (as an emission)”
- > Q. surya- “to blow (intr.)” ✧ NM/239
  - ⇒ Q. etsurya- “to go out” ✧ NM/239
> Q. sussë “puff (of air)” ✧ NM/237
> S. thos “puff (of air)” ✧ NM/237
> S. thû² “movement of spirit” ✧ NM/237

ᴹ√THUS root. “*smell, stench”

See √THAW for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/THUS

THUS ?related to THŪ ✧ Ety/THUS

Derivatives

> ᴹ✶thausā “foul, evil-smelling, putrid” ✧ Ety/THUS
- > ᴹQ. saura “foul, evil-smelling, putrid” ✧ Ety/THUS
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. saurikumba “*foul-bellied” ✧ SD/68
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. Sauron ✧ Ety/THUS
- > N. thaw “corrupt, rotten” ✧ Ety/THUS
> ᴹQ. Sûr ✧ Ety/THUS
> N. thost “smell” ✧ EtyAC/THUS
> N. thosta- “to stink” ✧ EtyAC/THUS
- ⇒ ᴺS. !thostol “stinking”
> N. thû “stench” ✧ Ety/THUS
- ⇒ N. Morthu “*Black Stench” ✧ Ety/THUS
- ⇒ N. Thû ✧ Ety/THUS
  - ⇒ N. Gorthû “*Fear Stench”
  - ⇒ N. Tol Thû ✧ LR/407
- ⇒ S. Thû “Sauron; Manwë?”

ᴱ√FAWA root. “smell”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “smell” along with several Qenya derivatives, most unglossed (QL/37). It seems this was a neutral “smell” root based on words in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon, such as G. faust “smell, odour (neither pleasant nor unpleasant)” (GL/34). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.

Reference ✧ QL/37 ✧ “smell”

FAWA “smell” [had, per editors, a deleted note saying: cp.] FAɃA ✧ QL/37
FAWA “smell” might have developed into √SAW “disgusting, foul, vile; bad, unhealthy, ill, wretched”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. fausta “*smell” ✧ QL/37
> ᴱQ. fausta- “to get smell of” ✧ QL/37
- ⇒ ᴱQ. faustima “*odorous, able to be smelled” ✧ QL/37
- ⇒ ᴱQ. fustúma “*able to be smelled”
⇒ ᴱQ. foalóke “*serpent that guarded a treasure” ✧ QL/37
> G. fau- “to smell, give off a smell”
> G. faug¹ “stinking”
> G. faust “smell, odour (neither pleasant nor unpleasant)”
> G. fost “odour”
- ⇒ G. fostrin “odorous” ✧ GL/36