Eldamo : Noldorin : tui

N. tui n. “sprout, bud” (Category: to Sprout, Bud, Blossom)

N. tui, n. “sprout, bud” (Category: to Sprout, Bud, Blossom): G. altha “shoot, sprig, scion, sapling”; G. calw “green shoot, sapling, sprout”; G. clast “bud, shoot, sprout”; G. thed “eye; bud”

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “a sprout, bud” under the root ᴹ√TUY “spring, sprout” (Ety/TUY).

Conceptual Development: There was a different word G. teth “a bud” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/70), likely based on the early root ᴱ√TETE “bud, blossom” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/92).

Reference ✧ Ety/TUY ✧ “a sprout, bud”

ᴺS. tuig “shoot, sapling, ⚠️sprout” vs. tui “sprout, bud”

Element In

N. tuilinn “swallow, (lit.) spring-singer”
ᴺS. ^tuilas “petal, (lit.) bud-leaf”

Cognates

ᴹQ. tuima “sprout, bud” ✧ Ety/TUY

Derivations

< ᴹ✶tuimā “a sprout, bud” ✧ Ety/TUY
- < tuiw < tuimā ✧ Ety/TUY
- < ᴹ√TUY “sprout, spring” ✧ Ety/TUY

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶tuimā > tuiw > tui

[tuimā] > [tuima] > [tuim] > [tuiv] > [tui]

✧ Ety/TUY

G. teth n. “bud” (Category: to Sprout, Bud, Blossom)

See N. tui for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/70 ✧ “a bud”

Element In

G. tethlas “petal, *(lit.) bud-leaf” ✧ GL/70
G. Tethil ✧ GL/70
G. tethla- “to bud” ✧ GL/70

Cognates

ᴱQ. tetse “bud” ✧ GL/70

Derivations

< ᴱ√TETE “bud, blossom”