N. iuitha- v. “to employ” (Category: to Use)
A verb in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “employ” under the root ᴹ√YUK “employ, use” (Ety/YUK; EtyAC/YUK). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road Christopher Tolkien indicated the gloss was “?enjoy” (LR/400), but Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne corrected this to “employ” in their Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies (VT45/23).
References ✧ Ety/YUK; EtyAC/YUK
Changes
Inflections
| iuitho | infinitive | “employ” | ✧ Ety/YUK |
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√YUK > iuitho | [jukta-] > [juktʰa-] > [juxθa-] > [juiθa-] | ✧ Ety/YUK |