Q. #lut- v. “to float” (Category: to Float)
The verb lut- “float” appeared in its unaugmented perfect form lútie “have floated” in a draft of the poem Löa Yucainen from 1958 (CPT/1296). It is clearly based on the root √LUT “float” (VT42/18). It also appeared in the final version of the poem within a longer verb form valutie “have flowed away” (CPT/1298), with a prefix va- “away” likely derived from √WA of the same meaning.
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. lutta- or lutu- “flow, float” under the early root ᴱ√LUTU (QL/57). The verb lut- reappeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, where it was translated “float, sail” (PE16/134). Forms of lut- also appeared in the Oilima Markirya and Earendel poems from around 1930, respectively translated as “leave” and “sailed” (MC/213, 216), the gloss “leave” probably being a loose translation.
Neo-Quenya: The root ᴹ√LUT was glossed “float, swim” in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LUT), so many Neo-Quenya writers use lut- for “swim”, such Helge Fauskanger in his Neo-Quenya New Testament (NQNT). I would use lut- for “flow” only for something flowing on or within water or some other (possibly metaphorical) substance; for the flowing substance itself I would use other verbs like sirya-. I would also use lut- “sail” only to describe the motion of the ship itself, and for the act of sailing a ship I would use kiryasta-; see that entry for discussion.
References ✧ CPT/1296
Inflections
| lútie | perfect; augmentless | “have ... floated” | ✧ CPT/1296 |
Element In
Derivations
ᴱQ. lutu- v. “to flow, float, sail” (Category: to Float)
References ✧ LT1A/Alqaluntë; MC/213, 216; PE16/56-57, 60-62, 72, 74, 77, 100, 104, 134; QL/57
Glosses
Variations
Changes
Inflections
| lutya | active-participle | ✧ PE16/77 | |
| lúte | aorist | “leave” | ✧ MC/213 |
| lunte | past | ✧ PE16/56; PE16/57 | |
| lunte | past | ✧ PE16/60; PE16/61 | |
| lūte | past | ✧ PE16/60; PE16/60; QL/57 | |
| luutier | past 3rd-sg-masc | ✧ PE16/104 | |
| lútier | past 3rd-sg-masc | “sailed” | ✧ MC/216; PE16/100 |
| lutilya | past active-participle | ✧ PE16/56 | |
| lutsilja | past active-participle | ✧ PE16/72 | |
| lutsilya | past active-participle | ✧ PE16/57; PE16/60; PE16/60; PE16/74 | |
| lutsilya | past active-participle | “sailing” | ✧ PE16/62 |
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√LUTU > lutta- | [lutta-] | ✧ LT1A/Alqaluntë |
| ᴱ√LUTU > lutu- | [lutu-] | ✧ QL/57 |